According to Lincoln, why is the Civil War being fought?

Slavery, Lincoln stated, was the reason for the war: One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves. Not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. To say that slavery was the cause placed responsibility for the bloodshed on the South.

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c. reserves power to the states and people