New states were formed and this was an issue because Congress needed to decide whether these lands would become free or slave states. Northerners felt that slavery was morally wrong and they did not want it to spread into the new part of the nation. Abraham Lincoln once stated, “Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature -- opposition to it is in his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks, and throes, and convulsions must ceaselessly follow. Repeal the Missouri Compromise -- repeal all compromises -- repeal the declaration of independence -- repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.” Southerners felt the complete opposite as the
New states were formed and this was an issue because Congress needed to decide whether these lands would become free or slave states. Northerners felt that slavery was morally wrong and they did not want it to spread into the new part of the nation. Abraham Lincoln once stated, “Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature -- opposition to it is in his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks, and throes, and convulsions must ceaselessly follow. Repeal the Missouri Compromise -- repeal all compromises -- repeal the declaration of independence -- repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.” Southerners felt the complete opposite as the