“.....we have no right at all to disturb it (slavery) in the states where it exists, and we profess that we have no more inclination to disturb it than we have the right to do it…We also oppose it as an evil so far as it seeks to spread itself. We insist on the policy that shall restrict it to its present limits. We don’t suppose that in doing this we violate anything due to the actual presence of the institution, or anything due to the constitutional guarantees thrown around it”. Lincoln/Douglas Debate, 1858
Another quote from the great liar.
“In the first place what is necessary to make the institution [of slavery] national? Not war. There is no danger that the people of Kentucky will shoulder their muskets and with a young n****r stuck on every bayonet march into Illinois and force them upon us. There is no danger of our going over there and making war on them”.
The great liar in all his glory.
http://lincolnandslavery.com/lsjom/events/landmark-events/118-the-lincoln-douglas-debates.html
Lincoln did not start the war. The slave power did that.
Lincoln did win it. The slave power and it’s apologists have never forgiven him for that.
Nice example of selective quotation out of context. You carefully left out the rest of the paragraph.
... Then what is necessary for the nationalization of slavery? It is simply the next Dred Scott decision. It is merely for the Supreme Court to decide that no state under the Constitution can exclude it, just as they have already decided that under the Constitution neither Congress nor the territorial legislature can do it. When that is decided and acquiesced in, the whole thing is done.
Reasonable people can differ on whether there was any such plan, but a case that might have been used in this way was making its way towards the Court, and the South had a large majority there. Protecting slave property, like any other property, in a state is in theory not all that different from doing so in a territory.