In his 1860 address at Cooper Union, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed that the South would be satisfied only if they were convinced that
A) the Republicans agreed that slavery was morally and legally right;
B) the tariff that Republicans favored would not apply to the importation of new slaves;
C) the federal government had the power to restrict slavery in the territories
D) a Republican administration would support filibustering expeditions to Cuba;
E) the Fugitive Slave Act was wrong.
A
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