How did lincoln become the clear victor in the presidential election? what happened? what was lincoln's view on slavery?

He was the 40% Victor of vote but they we cased by the north. The other groups of presidential candidatea where spread out and so the most vote for one candidate was Lincoln even though he wasn't on the ballot for 10 slave states. Lincoln's view on slavery was that is was wrongs hence him saying that there would be on compromise on the subject and that slavery won't continue or expand.

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