In a four-way contest, the Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin, absent from the ballot in ten slave states, won a national popular plurality, a popular majority in the North where states already had abolished slavery, and a national electoral majority comprising only Northern electoral votes.Explanation:
Answer: The opposite of the principle of charity is the straw man. This happens when we intentionally misrepresent our opponent's position to argue against something we can easily defeat
