What struggles did the North face at the beginning of the Civil War?

One of
the struggles that the North had to contend with was that many peoplemainly Northern
Democratswere dead set against the war. They felt that some kind of political compromise
could've been achieved with the South on the fraught issue of slavery without the need for armed
conflict. Though never more than a minority, Northern opponents of the war were nonetheless
large enough and vocal enough to act as a constant thorn in the side of the Lincoln
Administration.

As the Civil War dragged on, becoming ever more bloody in the
process, anti-war sentiment in the North increased, leading to full-scale draft and race riots
in Northern cities. Yet it's important to recognize that the attitudes which gave rise to these
serious public disturbances were always there right from the start, bubbling away just beneath
the surface.