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Most Northerners were not so passionately anti-slavery that they were ready to sacrifice the cotton revenues by abolishing it.
Some northerners believed slavery was morally wrong. Southerners believed slavery was an essential part of their lives.
Some northerners came to admire him for trying to end slavery. :)
The main opposition came from Copperheads, who were Southern sympathizers. Irish Catholics opposed the war due to the draft.
Because it was the mainstay of the cotton industry, which represented half the exports of the USA.