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Lincoln wanted to stop slavery from spreading West.
What is above this is wrong. Lincoln didn't want to be president because he wanted to end slavery. He didn't care if slavery continued or ended. He just wanted to figure out a way to keep the union together. When he took office the south lost it's political power eventually. The North was much stronger than the south. That's when Lincoln wrte the emancipation proclamation. The south had to suck it up. Lincoln wanted to be president because he thought he found a way to end the scial unrest.
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ProfessorHe just wanted to because it was a dream of his.
He believed that slavery should not be allowed to spread- that there should
not be any new slave states. Like almost everybody who runs for public office, he believed that he could do at least as well in the job as his opponent and probably do better. Lincoln campaigned hard for the US Senate in 1858 but lost to Stephen A. Douglas. He probably welcomed a chance to put his position to the voters art the national level.
Abraham Lincoln strongly opposed slavery. He had a reverence for the Founding Fathers and believed the country was straying from the nation that it was intended to become. Prior to his nomination and throughout his campaign, Lincoln pressed the idea found in the Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal."
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