With President Lincoln's chance of re-election very high, Booth became more enraged with President Lincoln. The North's chances of winning were much higher than the South's chances. He began planning to kidnap President Lincoln from his summer home and take him to Richmond. He would use him to exchange prisoners that the North had taken. Now, as John W. Booth was pro-slave and anti-Lincoln, amd his brother Edwin was anti-slave and pro-Lincoln, they were fighting so much and angrily that Edwin told John W. Booth that he was no longer welcome at his home. Now as their plan for President Lincoln's capture was there, the night that they were waiting for him, he never showed.