You just reaffirmed what I said that he was anti slavery.
Statements yes , actions as president no. Until it became expedient for the war effort.
I said this before, reading comprehension problems I guess.
You said "Lincoln was personally against slavery but bowed down to the business interests of slavery as most Rebutlickens do, and more an more Demoncrats do as well."
Since Lincoln delayed doing anything about slavery until after the war has started, that statement can easily be read to mean Lincoln was bowing to the pro-slavery business pressures until it was expedient to the war effort to outlaw slavery.
No reading comprehension problems there. Your claim is he did nothing because of business interests. That is a concept which is plain false, and from the way it was stated, comes from some kind of unreasoned antipathy for the Republican party.
I guess Lincoln could have issued an executive order freeing all slaves his first day in office. But what would that have done except make the Civil War happen sooner? The south was already making secession noises prior to his presidency. His focus was on preventing secession, not make matters worse by pushing through a mandate that would have only served to anger the South more, and prove, from their South's POV, that federalism was overstepping it bounds.
While secession was brought about by a number of factors, those factors included the issue of slavery. Simply pushing through a mandate on an issue which was included in every southern state's declaration for secession would not have been a good idea at a time when avoidance of secession was the desired outcome.
When the South seceded anyway, he was then free to act on the slavery issue since it was no longer a factor that could have an effect on the actions of the South. And he did so.
The idea that his proclamation was in any way expedient to the war effort is ludicrous. The south had already, by their standards, seceded. We all, I am sure, agree that secession was what the Civil War was about, right? The South wanted to secede, the North said they couldn't. Slavery was a sub issue in the cause of secession, but not the cause of the Civil War. Agreed?
So, anyway, the U.S. was in a civil war, the South had seceded, and was not about to pay any attention to mandates coming from a government they no longer acknowledged as their own. From a war effort stance, the Emancipation Proclamation had zero effect, nor was it expected to have an effect. Lincoln was no idiot. To assume he even thought for a second his proclamation would affect the war is plain silly.
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