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Did Lincoln promise the South that he would not interfere with slavery where it already existed?
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He did at first, hoping to keep the Union together and to preserve the peace. After a few years of war, he decided to use the war to keep the nation together and end slavery once and for all in the USA.
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What does Lincoln promise the leaders of slave holding states in the second excerpt?
The second excerpt of what? I assume you mean in his inauguration, when he promised that he wouldn't interfere with slavery in the states in which it already existed, and the he wouldn't maintain the Union by initiating force.
What US president caused Mississippi to secede from the Union in 1861?
The election of Abraham Lincoln to the US presidency in 1860, caused many Southerners a good deal of stress. Despite Lincoln's promise to leave slavery where it already existed, alone, and despite his promise to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act, many Southerners believed that Lincoln's personal views that slavery was wrong would become a problem. Mississippi seceded from the Union and joined the Confederacy.
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Which was not a promise Abraham Lincoln made in his inaugural address?
Everyone gets a piece of corn
