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 The Expansion of the United States 367 state autonomy was very dear to many minds, and the north seemed in effect to be forcing abolition upon the south. In the border states brothers and cousins, even fathers and sons, would take opposite ABRAHAiM LINCOLN sides and find themselves in antagonistic armies. The north felt its cause a righteous one, but for great numbers of people it was not a full-bodied and unchallenged righteousness. But for Lincoln there