Original sentence: Also in his Inaugural Address, Lincoln supported the proposed Corwin amendment to the constitution, of which he was a driving force.He refused, however, any compromise on the issue of westward expansion of slavery.This proposed amendment would have explicitly protected slavery in those states in which it already existed, and eventually passed both houses
Edited sentence: In the months leading up to the war, Lincoln did not confront powerful Radical Republicans in his own party, like Senator Zachariah Chandler of Michigan, Senator Benjamin F.Lincoln drafted the amendment, a constitutional amendment which eventually passed both houses protecting slavery in those states in which it already existed, but refused to make his authorship public.Lincoln spurned requests to appoint a Southern non-Republican to his cabinet, however, and refused to compromise on the issue of westward expansion of slavery.Lincoln was so ineffectual during the first months of his presidency that his Secretary of State, William H.Lyman Trumbull, who advocated a hard-line against the South when Southerners demanded that a majority of Republicans support the Corwin Amendment.Seward, offered to take over presidential duties for a time.Throughout the rest of his presidency Lincoln proved much more willing to defy the wishes of the Radical Republicans.Wade of Ohio, and Illinois Sen