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It was because he did not want to upset the south and make them secede form the union or start a war. As we know this did not go as planed and the Civil War started (later) after this. He also did not want to make the border states angry when the war was going on, because they were protection for the union against the south. Lincoln said that he would not do anything about it now, but he did think that it should end. He was just trying to keep the union together.

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Q: Why did Lincoln not act against slavery at the beginning of the civil war even though he considered it immoral?
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