Carronade
Captain
- Joined
- Aug 4, 2011
- Location
- Pennsylvania
Lincoln said the nation could not long endure half slave and half free, that it would have to become all one or all the other; and I don't think he was suggesting that the northern states accept slavery.
His immediate purpose in 1861 was simply to preserve the Union, and I think he spoke honestly when he said he would free some, all, or none of the slaves in order to accomplish that; but I doubt he envisioned slavery persisting indefinitely thereafter.
His immediate purpose in 1861 was simply to preserve the Union, and I think he spoke honestly when he said he would free some, all, or none of the slaves in order to accomplish that; but I doubt he envisioned slavery persisting indefinitely thereafter.