Lincoln's first inagural address

As imagined the primery topic of Abe Lincoln's first inagural was the South's succession from the United States. He also stated that the induvidual states should decide on their own whether they be slave, or free. And at this point he had no issue with slavery itself. And slavery was not  a concern of his at this time, his job was to preserve the Union, and he planned to bring the new CSA back to the Union. He did not want to use force to bring the south back, he wanted negotiations to bring them back. Going back to the issue of slavery, he did wish to protect free slaves, so that they would not be kiddnapped, and brought back into slavery. And Lincoln wanted to continue government instatusions in the south, like the post office, because he saw no reason to revoak them. To sum up Lincoln wanted everyone to remain calm, that all would be brought back to normal. And the turbulance would soon settle.