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Originally Posted by blackmonsters
Lincoln didn't give a shit about a slave. 
The emancipation proclamation only freed slaves in the rebelling states and each was
promised that they could keep slavery if they returned to the union.
That MoFo had no choice but to end slavery because no rebelling state complied
and rejoined to the union. |
you're an ungrateful simpleton. Lincoln was against slavery, his first job as President was to save the Union and why he didn't abolish slavery everywhere - sorry if real life and history isn't a Disney movie. you're only right in that Lincoln put saving the country ahead of ending slavery. if he'd have lost the war there might still be slaves in the South.
here are Lincoln's personal thoughts
"I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views. I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of
my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free."