Why do people think Lincoln free'd slaves?

Question

Fact is he had no constitutional power to do so, Lincoln was one of the worst president's we ever had, The only thing he had done was keep US from splitting which I guess was a good thing. He also killed 700,000 or more Americans also he did things unconstitutional and today he would of been impeached but yet people think he was great but read your history and I mean read it and then come back and tell me Lincoln should be honored. The South or slae states gave up slavery and it was abolished it wasnt the Civil War that ended slavery, what the Civil War did was end the right for states to govern by themselves and that is it. Read this link and thats one of many: http://www.sobran.com/columns/1999-2001/000803.shtml

Lincoln was a tyrant and wanted absolute power.

I'm saying we recognize this president as one of the greats but he maybe the worst ever, HE DIDN'T free 1 slave, Emanicipation Proclomation he wrote so Ebgland wouldnt get envolved in the war for the South Cause because he knew england wouldnt want to be marked helping a slave country. Longstreet Said "we should of freed the slaves, then fired on Ft. Sumter, This war was more about Economic struggles then anything, of course something to do with slavery.

Answer 1

The Civil war was started by the Southern States in order to preserve Slavery. It was fought by the rest of the country to preserve the Union. Preserving the union meant and end to Slavery.

The emancipation proclamation freed the slaves in the rebel states (hardly enforceable). The lock that freed the slaves was the 13th Amendment to the constitution, ratified by a majority of the states by December 1865 (including most southern states with reconstruction legislatures).

Lincoln should be honored. He understood the immorality of slavery and the politics required to end it. He fought a war, brought on by the South, to preserve the Union knowing that would also be an end to slavery.

The war was not northern aggression. It was not over states rights, it was about slavery, and the extremes the slave holders would go to (breaking up the United States) in order to continue a manifestly immoral practice.

Answer 2

Some people really do need to read a history book. Lincoln "freed the slaves" because Britain was thinking of fighting for the Confederacy. Britain would never help the South if it thought that it was going to be about slavery, so Lincoln forced the issue with the Emancipation. Think about this if the war was over Slavery, why did he wait three years make the Emancipation Proclamation?

BTW: JPC you do realize that the GOP and the Democrates were far different parties than they are today.

Answer 3

you better read a different book

stop reading southern revisionist literature

in 1863 Lincoln offered the South a deal to stop the war and they could keep the slaves legally untill 1900

he assumed by then that mechanization would make slavery redundant at that point anyways

the South refused to give up slavery at all, even 40 years into the future

thats when Lincoln decided there was no other option but the Emancipation Proclimation and total war.

Answer 4

Holding people as property is morally wrong who cares what the constitution or laws say if you can't see that then you are part of the problem and should go away. It was a just war because the results were morally correct only a fool lets pieces of paper rule what's right or wrong to do. If you don't like it here you are free to leave. Ain't freedom great.

Answer 5

The winners always write the history books

Answer 6

Here goes another Dixycrat trying to take credit away from Lincoln's Grand Old Party.

Answer 7

OMG you are an idiot. It is you who should read your history. Ever heard of the Emancipation Proclamation? He wrote that. He freed the slaves and kept our country together. So sorry your side lost. I guess you'll just have to cry into your Confederate flag every night, and wish for the class hierarchy based, slave subjugated country that almost was.

Answer 8

Lincoln was an excellent statesman and diplomat and he is credited for keeping the US together.

As far as freeing any slaves, you are correct. He did not free even one. The Emancipation Proclamation applied only to the Southern rebel states who didn't recognize him as president. It did not apply to the border states who kept slaves.

Regardless, calling him a tyrant who wanted absolute power is ridiculous.

Answer 9

Sounds like you go to school in Alabama. The rest of the country is out of the 1950s. The fact is the South was forced to give up slavery BECAUSE of the civil war. Had they given it up prior there would have been no war.

Answer 10

what you write is true. Besides even back then people understood that "slavery" was very unproductive and it was going out of style by the time Civil War started.

Lincoln's wife was a drug addict and was probably one of the worst models as a first lady.

There's a conspiracy theory that states that Lincoln wasn't shot by some "assassin" but it was actually his drugged out wife who did it. Booth is said to have lived a good life after he escaped the scene due to his "patriotic" behavior as the scape goat. Well it's all conspiracy but the truth and fact is that we all tend to glorify the past.