He was a Democratic Republican.
He was running in opposition to the Federalists.
The north as that is where most of the industrial work was done while the south was the farming area :)
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They also supported the Northern cause in the Civil War, even though Lincoln repeatedly stated that he was not waging war to achieve emancipation. In his First Inaugural Address, Lincoln emphasized that he had no intention of interfering with slavery as it presently existed.
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