Lincoln’s clarity on slavery.

[RJNorton]

Apparently not all in Lincoln's audience were supportive of his position. I found the following text in Museography (a publication of the Kalamazoo Valley Museum and Kalamazoo Valley Community College).

"We know what Lincoln had to say because his remarks were taken down by a reporter in shorthand and published in the Detroit Daily Advertiser on Aug. 29, 1856. His comments prefigured themes that were developed in his “House Divided” speech he gave two years later. Still, his comments were not universally well received. Members of the Michigan audience were more abolitionist than Lincoln. The pro-Democrat Kalamazoo Gazette reported that Lincoln “was far too conservative and Union-loving in his sentiments to suit his audience.”

Unlike Detroit abolitionist Zachariah Chandler who vowed to make Kansas a “desert” if it entered the Union as a slave state, Lincoln’s conciliatory tone brought out some boos from the audience.

It was clear from this response that attitudes, North and South, were already hardening. Little did the politician from Illinois or his audience realize how soon they would be locked in a war to preserve the Union."

https://www.kalamazoomuseum.org/info/mus...use_XV.pdf