Lincoln's attitude toward slavery was that it should be kept below the missouri compromise line to the pacific that he did not care one way or the other that he was more concerned with keeping the union together that it must be abolished at all costs

i confess that there are several parts of this constitution which i do not at present approve, but i am not sure i shall never approve them: for having lived long, i have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which i once thought right, but found to be otherwise. it is therefore that the older i grow, the more apt i am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.

can we see the cartoon?