Originally Posted by dimecovers5
Originally Posted by dimecovers5
I've read some on this subject and don't know what to believe. I would like to know why you guys discount the notion his overarching intentions were good and he just wanted to preserve the union even at such a high cost.


Any one care to give an opinion on the above?

Also, while at it, is the notion Lincoln came to believe later in the war that slavery was immoral and without abolishing it the country would never fully fulfill its inherent promises?

Because they simply don't want to understand that Lincolns view on Negroes evolved during the War. Mostly because of his friendship with Frederick Douglass. They like to believe here that 1860 Abraham Lincoln was 1865 Abraham Lincoln