Two Sides Of Abraham Lincoln's Opposition To The North

Opposition was felt by both the north and south. In the North, the opposers felt the Southerners possessed the right to be independency and felt the war affected them negatively. In the South, the opposers did not want a war or a Union advance on the newly declared Confederacy. All the opposers didn’t see a positive side to having the war. Both side also had people that just wanted peace between the sides.
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• The main opposition from the north came from Copperheads. The copperheads were Southern sympathizers which resided in the Midwest.
• It was Stated that if Abraham Lincoln was elected President or if the Union won the civil war, a large group of ‘blacks’ would move to the North, and therefore cause a difficult economic situation