... 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 and fairly maintained" (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 states. As a result Lincoln opposed any further extension of slavery in new federal territories and thought that slavery would graduall...

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