the Senate. That tension, when publicly addressed, erupted into war.
             Both the North and the South felt that the other was trying to enslave
             them. This feeling among both Northerners and Southerners made the
             expansion issue so powerful because the more land and as a result power the
             South gained, the more afraid the north became; as a result the more
             the North felt they must prevent the south from expanding.
             Arthur Schlesinger feels that the war was fought over the moral issue
             of slavery. In his essay, "A Moral Problem," he says, " A society
             closed in the defense of evil institutions thus creates moral differences
             far too profound to be solved by compromise. Such a
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