Did you know the North had slaves, too? And Lincoln signed The Emancipation Proclamation kind of as an afterthought. He didn’t care one way or the other about slavery.
You are correct, beckysueb.
In a response to a New York Tribune editorial he wrote a letter to Editor Andrew Greeley explaining why slaves were being freed . He stated,
” 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”
Complete nonsense. He wrote the proclamation, how could he sign it 'as an afterthought'? "Hmmm...let's see... January 1st...had breakfast, check...greeted the people, check...wasn't there something else I was going to do today? Oh yeah! Now where did I put that emancipation thing...."
lincoln said that he was willing to make chattel slavery PERMANENT by amending the Constitution to PROTECT "the peculiar institution"!!! (bet they didn't tell you THAT in school!)
lincoln & wee willie klintoon, as POTUS were about the same variety = they would SAY/DO ANTHING no matter how amoral to "get ahead".
free dixie,sw