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Perhaps because he was a strong Unionist and loved the United States of America just as he loved the South. His main reason however was that he saw the absolute defeat of the South and the awful bloodshed that would be involved in the Civil War. As a US Senator he had spoken against sectionalism and had voted against the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854.

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