Lincoln wanted to make sure that the new state governments in the south

Lincoln wanted to make sure that the new state governments in the south would comply with his policy of emancipation of slaves and be lenient towards them.

Explanation:

workers of lowell mills were greatly benefited for the waltham type of work which was more a paternalist kind, trying to protect the integrity of this little girls coming from small farmers and providing an adequate place of work, this in an effort to avoid the issues of bad place conditions and immorality that the people in bigger industrialized cities of great britain were experimenting.