The main incentive to rule in favor of slaveholders when a runaway was taken into custody and brought before the federal commissioner was because such a ruling would technically be upholding a person's "right to property" which was thought to be protected. <span />
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Explanation: The Battle of Gettysburg was a turning point in the Civil War in that Lee's failure to take the war into the North showed the limitations of the Confederate cause and made it so that the war would be contained to and thus the damages would be felt exclusively in the South.
He did not agree with punishing people for breaking the rules of the church.
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