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Caption: Booklet - Life of President Lincoln on his Birthday (1896)
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circumstances which lead up to the Civil War There wa a negro slai erj in the south and th con stitution had recognized it. Bu1 th tl ordi nance for the organization of the Norths t 'I rritory, which in importance rivalled the constitution itself, dedicated to freedom all thai pari of th public domain north of the Ohio. Other territ< »r\ acquired later beyond the Mississippi was lefl to uncertainty and controversy. The Missouri Compromise was only a temporary expedient. I forty years the slave power had sou ht to extend its system into the parts of this territory when southern men had found their new homes. The convention which nominated Mr. Lincoln had not declare against the slave sysl m within it- old limitation but had taken decided ground against its extension into the newly formed territories of the w t. < His ection, even on this platform, embittered the slave power on the one hand, and. on the other, stimulated while it did not satisfy the rijrhteous and ntinmilly growing public sentimenl in the no I) w hieh demanded the overthrow ^\' the slave 53 in altogel her. When he took the oath of office 1 h il I batw< n these extreme and contending i Si \ jtal s.s had ;i Ire id \ ;i - mined to go out of tl Union and s > up a confederated republi of 1 l h \ 11. W i t h h i s h a w<\ <>n t he \i K ) k , lie took h position with exactness. It wa> a position w] h pi 1 I non • of the extremists, lie said he ri\ d ;ill his p >wers from the constitution, the I. and the people, and that it was not within l < MI on i 1011 bo Interfere w it h the slave system • n the nlave J . • t« . It was his business to nve the i , ,,, ;,,M| enforces its laws, Whatever it was well , ,|,, i . ., \ , I h<- I n i« u i n o 1 pr< » h i l u t e d l>\ t he eon
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