... thinking that slavery would eventually die out by compromising that southern states could have its slaves without expanding, to 1854, when the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, as it stated Congress had no right to prohibit the expansion of slavery to federal territories, and this would radicalize Lincoln's ... leave the federal territories as a "whites-only preserve", although another argument from Lincoln is that it threatened to limit opportunity of free white labor which was also delivered in his Coopers Union Speech. His thoughts on race did influence the expansion of slavery into the...

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