How does Lincoln describe the different goals of the South and the North prior to the war?

President Lincoln told a New York newspaper that preserving the Union was his main goal of the Civil War — not abolishing slavery. "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all slaves I would do it," Lincoln said.

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answer; i believe the correct answer is (favorable balance);