Abraham Lincoln firmly opposed the Crittenden Compromise because
A) it was really a return to Stephen Douglas's discredited popular sovereignty doctrine.
B) it permitted slavery in New Mexico territory.
C) it would restore an equal balance of slave and free states in the Senate.
D) it would make it impossible ever to end slavery in the South.
E) it could allow slavery to expand southward into Latin America.
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