LAD #12: Lincoln's First Inaugural Address

Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address mostly focused on his views on many controversial subjects of the time period. Of those subjects he touched on the issue of slavery. He states that the Constitution is supposed to uphold states rights. He wanted strong support for the Fugitive Slave Law. Laws in the nation would be upheld in all states in order to defend the United States Constitution. There would be no invasion in the South in his knowledge. He wanted to “form a more perfect union” he had no objection to the amendment passed to protect slavery in the states it already existed in. Rights protected by the Constitution were valid and not to be messed with. He addressed the fact that nowhere in the Constitution does it reference the ability of the US Government to expand into the West or state beliefs on the issue of slavery.