It was so the delegates would be free to say what was on their minds. If anything about what they said would go to the public, there would be people who would be mad at them and thus possibly hurt them. It was to protect them.
They did not share the same goals on Reconstruction
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They had different ideas of reconstructions.
The Whigs and the Democrats were in opposition to each other from 1840 to 1861, but both of them encountered intra-party sectionalism over slavery.These two parties worked towards helping different people. One group was in <span>favor of large government and the other was more in favor of states' rights.</span>
They owned very cheap ones for 20 cents, they believed it would go places so they invested.