During his campaign, Lincoln mentioned the John Brown’s Raid in the Cooper Union Address. This address helped Lincoln become President during the 1860. Lincoln did like some of the ideas of Brown but not all of them. He believed that slavery was wrong just like Brown did. One thing that Lincoln did not support was the fact that violence will end slavery. Lincoln believed that we should have settled the slavery controvercy with peace and no violence. Instead of peace we ended up having to settle it with a war, The Civil War. When Lincoln was elected, all of his votes were from the North, none of his votes were from the
During his campaign, Lincoln mentioned the John Brown’s Raid in the Cooper Union Address. This address helped Lincoln become President during the 1860. Lincoln did like some of the ideas of Brown but not all of them. He believed that slavery was wrong just like Brown did. One thing that Lincoln did not support was the fact that violence will end slavery. Lincoln believed that we should have settled the slavery controvercy with peace and no violence. Instead of peace we ended up having to settle it with a war, The Civil War. When Lincoln was elected, all of his votes were from the North, none of his votes were from the