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When you're used to privilege, not getting your way feels like oppression (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Lincoln was opposed to the expansion of slavery into the territories, and believed that the Federal government did not have the power to remove or prevent slavery from expanding into states, but could do so to territories.

One of his Democratic opponents in the election, Douglas, took the 'moderate' position of letting territories decide for themselves, while the majority South opinion championed by his other Democratic opponent, Breckenridge, was that slavery could not be forbidden from the territories.