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Why didn’t the southerners trust Lincoln and the Republicans?

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The southern states did not want Abraham Lincoln to win the election of eighteen sixty. Lincoln was a Republican. And the Republican Party opposed slavery. Lincoln never said he wanted to end slavery in the south.
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