... Cooper Union speech on February 27th, 1860, Lincoln expressed his agreement with the Founding Fathers that slavery is "an evil not to be extended, but to be tolerated and protected only because of and so far as its actual presence among us makes that toleration and protection a necessity. Let all the guaranties those fathers gave it, not grudgingly, but fully ... " (Gienapp, Right 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 st...

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