think about how it would have if there had been a cecessation in 1860? have ot clear what would happened but it's unclear if there would have been a will to south in 1850 and the myself broken off and created a slave-based empire that spread caribbean, intoe cuba, so in a paradoxical and kind of way, g this compromise, which was at the expense of black people as compromises have been in be a story, turned out to ignificant step toward their ultimate emancipation. you can wrestle with those kinds of questions. i'm not here to answer them. say that these are the kinds of questions that abraham y swirl around lincoln. why he's the reasons endured with such fascination. he was also a representative man that he was struggling with difficult moral problems. goods you reconcile two in this case? the good of the abolition of fervently ich he wished and prayed for, and the ood of the preservation of the nion which he believe would ultimately be the instrument of the abolition of slavery. have problems like that in our lives, where we're torn commitmentsvaluable a