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. Abraham Lincoln
I dont know why he is on this site. He should be on a liberal socialist site since he supports the southern historical democrat agenda.
Incorrect. Lincoln actually didn’t free any slaves as a practical matter. The Emancipation Proclamation only applied to slaves in Confederate states, and only to areas of those states not yet under Federal military control. Slavery wasn’t ended until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, which like any amendment, was something that the POTUS played no direct role in implementing, although Lincoln did lead the way in pushing the amendment’s passage in Congress.
Have you even read The Emancipation Proclamation? Lincoln freed the slaves in the South! He didn’t free the slaves in the North. He freed the slaves in a different country! That sounds like some of the crap Obama would pull. What do you think the US would say if Canada passed a law saying we had to turn in all of our cars? We’d laugh our heads off and tell them to go pound sand.