Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War: Edited With an Introduction
Four possible courses of action were available to the president-elect. One possibility was to lend his sup port to the efforts to work out a compro mise on the territorial question This course was urged by Northern leaders who believed an effective compromise on the territorial question would keep the Southern States in the union on a voluntary basis. They argued that such a compromise sacrificed nothing material as slavery could not be profitably ex tended into territories unsuited to cotton growing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
