lincoln was supportive of slavery?
Why did southerners try to assassinate him at the baltimore train station his first trip to DC
Why was the smithy afraid he would support more free than slave states when the territories became states.
What was all the bother for if he supported slavery. Seems like a lot of death and trouble.
why was the SOUTH afraid
He was when he urged the States to ratify the Corwin Amendment during his first Inaugural address. There is even some evidence that he may very well have written it himself.
"I understand a proposed amendment to the Constitution—which amendment, however, I have not seen—has passed Congress, to the effect that the Federal Government shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of the States, including that of persons held to service. To avoid misconstruction of what I have said, I depart from my purpose not to speak of particular amendments so far as to say that, holding such a provision to now be implied constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable."