... of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than to abate it evils. They believe that the Congress of the United States has no power, under the constitution, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the different states." (Gienapp, 8). This ties into his belief in the Constitution that the lawmaking should be abided by the nation meaning the belief that dismantling the institution of slavery wasn't possible without a legal basis. Lincoln was a member of ... the conservative Whig party which was partially influenced by his mentor Senator Henry Clay who devised the colonization...

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