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« on: June 15, 2017, 03:23:33 PM » |
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Lincoln definitely grew progressively more radical through his administration, partially as a reaction to the intransigence and stubbornness he was met with. For a candidate like him winning to trigger a third of the country to depart was a sign that the South had hit a point of extremism where any politician who wouldn't bend over backwards to pander to them and their sectional interests was totally unacceptable. Lincoln originally tried some more gradualist approaches, including floating a federal slave buyout route to emancipation to some of the remaining slave states, but Delaware turned him down on that.
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