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What was his endgame after Dred-Scott? The House Divided Speech by Lincoln makes it clear that the Union will either survive 100% without slavery and 100% with it and in his debates with Stephen Douglas, Lincoln appealed to working class whites by arguing that the decision in Dred-Scott to ban Congress from regulating slavery in the territories was open-ended, since then the question would come whether Congress had the power to regulate slavery in the states (i.e. Wisconsin can't declare itself to be a free state anymore because it violates the Fourth amendment since slaves are property).
Was this Taney and Buchanan's endgoal with Dred-Scott? Or was it something else?
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Crashing this Union. With no survivors.
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Was he actually conscious of the divide that this would cause? Or at that point did slaveowners just not give a fuck and assumed they could secede?
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