What does Lincoln take to be the only substantial issue dividing North and South?

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Camilla Harvey

11 February, 13:03

What does Lincoln take to be the only substantial issue dividing North and South?

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He felt that slavery and its continuance in the states was the only substantial issue. He understood that the southern states wanted to continue the institution while the northern states felt that it was intolerable. This was, in his mind, the issue that was splitting the country apart before the war.