Lincoln also needed the support of the four slave states that had not left the Union: Delaware,Kentucky,Maryland and Missouri.

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There also was the danger that fighting would cause slave states still in the Union to secede and join the southern Confederacy.

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In the past,he noted, the national government had tried to divide free states from slave states by a line across a map.

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Fremont could not expect to win any votes in the slave states of the South.

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It passed in the Senate only because two men from slave states voted for it.

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They said the policy would cause the slave states of the Union to secede.

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The committee had six members from slave states and six from free states.

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No more slave states. No more slave territory.

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For years,rich slave owners had talked of taking the southern states out of the Union to save their way of life.

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They wanted new states to be free from slavery, so they would not have to compete with slave labor.

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He also proposed that Congress declare that it had no power to interfere with the slave trade between states.

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They accused him of trying to create a slave rebellion in states he could not occupy with troops.

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Finally,he asked the United States Supreme Court to decide if he was a slave or a free man.

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He sent Northern forces to battle the slave-holding Southern states to keep them from leaving the Union.

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Lincoln then defended his statement that the United States could not continue half slave and half free.

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He said the North must recognize the rights of southerners, especially the right to take slave property into territories of the United States.

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This,he said,would lead to war between the slave-holding and free states.

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He was born a slave in the southern United States.

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