Do you think Lincoln emancipated slaves because of compassion for them, or to solve disputes btwn the N and S?

Question

I'm just curious because he was republican and won the republican party which helped him become elected as president. Slavery was all about power, and the north didn't have that and became upset. What do you all think?

Answer 1

Lincoln had a bigger battle on his hands. The World Bankers wanted the Union to fail so they could replace the Federal Reserve bank that has been taken out in 1862. Lincoln was printing his own money called Greebacks soley from the tresuary dept. He did not take loans from the world bankers. Its very complex. At one point the Czar of Russia stepped in and told France as well as Britain if they backed the South he would consider it an act of war. This was because Russia at the time was not on a Federal Reserve type system either. The Bolshevik revolution changed that around the same time we started our own Federal Reserve Banking system. People wonder why its important not to use such a system and why Lincoln had to win in order to keep us off the system for the next 50 years. I implore people to educate themselves on this subject. It explains many things that have taken place in history we do not understand. The war may not have started over this, but Lincolns resolve to win it was strongly motivated by this.

Answer 2

Lincoln Really didnt emancipate slaves, the Emanicipation Proclaimation was political move so Outside Nations who had abolished Slavery would not support the Confederacy, the war started out as a Socio-Political War about State's Rights and Slavery was just a Side Issue, now what lincoln did with the Emancipation Proclaimation was turn this into a Humanitarian War about freeing Slaves, in fact the Emancipation Proclaimation only "Freed Slaves" in Confederate Territories how can a do something in a Territory you don't control, the answer is, you can't, Slaves weren't free until the 13th Amendment, after the Civil War, although Lincoln is noted as the Great Emancipator he was a better politician...

Answer 3

ManEater, Lincoln was under enormous pressure from the abolitionists in his government to free the slaves. However, he was also under pressure from the Copperhead Democrats and the border states to not do so as they didn't know what impact freeing the slaves in the Confederacy would have on slave states still in the Union.

Lincoln, under pressure from a growing number of Abolitionist in his cabinet and in the military decided to issue the Emancipation Proclomation on ALREADY FREED slaves only and only if the Union could win a decisive victory (else the Proclomation would look emtpy and desperate).

Once he issued the Proclocamation it only really had any meaning for the slaves south of the border states once the Union Army arrived and set them free.

Do I think Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclomation because of compassion or because of the Civil War?

Well, Lincoln did say in peacetime that he had no power to free the slaves but would if he could - so I would guess that he used his wartime powers as president to free what he saw as a blight on the land.

Answer 4

I think you don't have a clue about the relationship between the north and south in the years leading up to the war. He emancipated the slaves to economically damage the south, to cement his support from the radical abolitionists in the northeast and to keep England and France out of the war.

Answer 5

Actually the slavery was more of an issue with Lincoln. The north and south had bigger issues they were fighting over.

Answer 6

He did not care as much about slavery as about fixing the conflict between the north and south. "A house divided can not stand."

Answer 7

I think:

Lincoln was an honest man who cared about justice. Lincoln did what was right, because it was right, taking into consideration both of the things you refer to.

Answer 8

neither. he emancipated the slaves, so that ex-slaves could join the North's military.

Answer 9

I you wish to know that answer read the life story of John Booth,
he was the one shot him in the head, it wasn't because of a dept he owed.
he was apposed to slavery and booth was for slavery he died for stopping it.
that would satisfy my thoughts