Before Inauguration:
Abraham was a very smart man and with a high sense of the world, so Abraham took advantage of the rising tensions of slavery by saying “He would free the slaves “. Doing this made very popular and decided to run as senator for Illinois. He ran against Douglas (none of my sources told me his first name) and formulated the House Divided Speech with a dual purpose of taking the seat and to distance himself from Douglas.
Slavery:
Abe was not much of an abolitionist, although he signed the Emancipation Proclamation, it was only