In the course of his campaign against Stephen Douglas in 1858, Abraham Lincoln declared all of the following except
A) Congress had no constitutional authority to abolish slavery in the South.
B) Social and political equality between blacks and whites was not desirable.
C) The Dred Scott decision rendered popular sovereignty "as thin as soup boiled from the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death."
D) This nation cannot exist permanently half slave and half free.
E) The best way to preserve the Union was to ensure that slavery was legal in all states, North and South.

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Lincoln never advocated for making slavery legal in all states as a way to preserve the Union. His stance was more focused on the idea that the country could not remain divided over the issue of slavery.

In the Course of His Campaign Against Stephen Douglas in 1858