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i think shaped us ever since, which is that there was a compromise on the table, in 1860, 1861, to extend slavery to the southern parts of the western territories and therefore avoid war. it was the kind of thing we always did. that was the kind of compromise we used to strike, and lincoln said no. and everybody around him was saying yes, and his reason was we have said that slavery is wrong and cannot be extended. they believe the white south that slavery is right and should be, and on that question hangs the entire union. and he was like winston churchill in 1940, he knew that appeasement had not worked and that s a vital lesson for us now, and it s really tricky. people don t like being told that they were wrong. but people have but we owe a duty to the truth, a duty to the facts of the matter to remember
its existing theater in the hopes that it would be on a path as he put it to ultimate extinction. over and against an interest that saw slavery as a positive good. the white south wanted slavery to expand. not just to the western territories. but they wanted to take cuba. they want to take parts of mexico. there was a mercenary ban that actually reinstituted slavery in nicaragua in the late 18 50s. they had this vision that slavery is going to be an empire. it was called the golden circle. and the foot soldiers of that were the nights of the golden circle. havana was going to be at the center. this is going to be a perpetual empire for slavery. lincoln knew this. he understood it. and he would not bid on fighting that force. and so the lesson for us is there are some things that are more important than simply winning elections or being