What did Abraham Lincoln state in the abolishment letter?

Answer 1

Abraham Lincoln served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Abraham Lincoln's position on freeing the slaves was one of the central issues in American history. Initially, Lincoln expected to bring about the eventual extinction of slavery by stopping its further expansion into any U.S. territory, and by offering compensated emancipation.

Lincoln, addressing the convention which nominated him, June, 16, 1858, opened the discussion with the following bold prophecy:

"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved-I do not expect the house to fall-but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the State, old as well as new-North as well as South."