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He thought it was immoral, but did not think that Congress should be allowed to abolish it where it already existed.

It was the admission of new slave-states that he objected to.

The Emancipation Proclamation made him seem like a crusader against slavery, but this was actually an urgent wartime measure aimed at shaming Britain and France into dropping their plans to help the Confederates.

It did not succeed in turning the North into a nation of Abolitionists, as confimed by the disappointing mid-term elections.

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