LAD #13

When Abraham Lincoln assumed office, he recognized the main issue of divide was regarding slavery. Whether it be slavery in the new territories or the return of slaves. A majority of his Inaugural Address covered this. Most of his platforms in the inaugural address were used as concilatory tools for Southerners. In retrospect, we can see that Lincoln had a deep care for the preservation of the union. This was reflected in his inaugural address. He claimed to strongly support the Fugitive Slave Law. He repeated that his platform held no position about slavery, he had no reason to interfer with it and was in support of the keeping the slave states as slave states. However he constantly went back to the fact that the Union was the most important idea, not slavery. He claimed the the Constitution was drafted in order to enable a great government, but it was just a contract itself. And as a contract, it can not be meddled with, before receiving the approval of all the party members of the United States.