A house divided against itself cannot stand.
-Abraham Lincoln
This quotation reflects Lincoln's belief that
state legislators, not popular vote, should settle the slavery issue.
slavery should be abolished throughout the United States.
the United States would have to become either all slave or all free
popular vote, not state legislators, should settle the slavery issue.
Read the quotation below.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
-Abraham Lincoln
This quotation reflects Lincoln's belief that
state legislators, not popular vote, should settle the slavery issue.
slavery should be abolished throughout the United States.
the United States would have to become either all slave or all free.
popular vote, not state legislators, should settle the slavery issue.
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Conclusion: Americans who led the Republican Party in its first few years argued against the extension of slavery into the territories and advanced a program advocating economic development in order to attract a broad base of support.
Evidence: "The men who strive to bring back the government to its original policy, when Freedom and not Slavery was national, while Slavery and not Freedom was sectional, he arraigns as sectional. This will not do. It involves too great a perversion of terms. I tell that senator that it is to himself, and to the "organization" of which he is the "committed advocate," that this epithet belongs. I now fasten it upon them. For myself, I care little for names; but, since the question has been raised here, I affirm that the Republican party of the Union is in no just sense sectional, but, more than any other party, national."—Source 12.3: Charles Sumner, The Crime against Kansas
Conclusion: The Republican Party attracted both ardent abolitionists and Americans who cared only about keeping the western territories open to settlement by free white laborers whose ambitions for social mobility depended on it.
Evidence: "The frenzy of Don Quixote in behalf of his wench Dulcinea del Toboso is all surpassed. The asserted rights of Slavery, which shock equality of all kinds, are cloaked by a fantastic claim of equality. If the slave States cannot enjoy what, in mockery of the great fathers of the Republic, he misnames equality under the Constitution,—in other words, the full power in the National Territories to compel fellow-men to unpaid toil, to separate husband and wife, and to sell little children at the auction-block,—then, sir, the chivalric senator will conduct the State of South Carolina out of the Union!"—Source 12.3: Charles Sumner, The Crime against Kansas