... makes might). It was not that Lincoln wanted slavery preserved, he said he is naturally anti-slavery, however as president, he was bound by the Constitution, which protected the institution of slavery in the states. As a result Lincoln opposed any further extension of slavery in new federal ... territories and thought that slavery would gradually go extinct arguing that it could artificially inflate the power of the Democratic Party. The three-fifths clause of the Constitution allowed five slaves ... Speech, 1854). There is a consistency here with that stance as Lincoln also argued tha...

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