Question

Based on the letter, what was Lincoln's reason for not pursuing military emancipation?

He could not convince the Union army.
He did not find it completely necessary.
He did not have legislative support for it.
He feared increased rebellion in the South.

Answer 1

Why did Lincoln hesitate to issue the Emancipation Proclamation ...
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Dec 2, 2007 - At the start of the war Lincoln had not yet adopted this view. ... In this light, consider a letter Lincoln critics cite but fail to note the DATE ... Obviously, the Emancipation Proclamation would undercut the ability to pursue this ... then of OPEN military support -- by cause internal political pressures (esp in Britain).
Lincoln's Constitutional Dilemma: Emancipation and Black ...
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[3] Thus by innuendo if not by direct statement, the Emancipation ... In the first year of the war, Lincoln feared chiefly that any move toward abolition might cause the border .... Hence the letter to Horace Greeley on August 22, in which Lincoln offered ... It was Lincoln's own way of softening the blow of military emancipation for ...
Emancipation Proclamation | Summary Facts - History Net
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In a letter dated September 11 that was published in Union newspapers, Lincoln ... abolition with the war would cause the slave-holding border states to rebel. ... sold the documents to improve conditions in military camps and provide medical care ... What Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation did—and did not—do ...

Answer 2

so the answer is... ??

Answer 3

first things first what do you think it is what did you learn

Answer 4

HE DID not find it neccessary.

Answer 5

sorry for the caps

Answer 6

that's fine but is that what you learn

Answer 7

yes... i think. he did not want a military emancipation because he deemed it unnecessary.

Answer 8

so you just answered your own question if you study you know the answer

Answer 9

do you think you can help me with another one??

Answer 10

this one is simplier.

Answer 11

@micahm We're not suppose to post links from Yahoo answers. Be careful.

Answer 12

i am with the HOS

Answer 13

not all ways does answer.com give the answers to you @King.Void.

Answer 14

can you help me with one more ?? @micahm

Answer 15

What?

Answer 16

what as in which part the HOS or the answer.com

Answer 17

and sure @pythonwizard

Answer 18

No, Just Yahoo Answers.

Answer 19

And then another site, I don't remember it.

Answer 20

My Dear Sir:
You ask me to put in writing the substance of what I verbally stated the other day, in your presence, to Governor Bramlette and Senator Dixon. It was about as follows:
I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong nothing is wrong. I cannot remember when I did not so think and feel; and yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially in this judgment and feeling. It was in the oath I took that I would to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. I could not take the office without taking the oath. Nor was it in my view that I might take the oath to get power, and break the oath in using the power.
I understood, too, that in ordinary civil administration this oath even forbade me to practically indulge my primary abstract judgment on the moral question of slavery. I had publicly declared this many times and in many ways; and I aver that, to this day I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery. I did understand, however, that my oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government, that nation, of which that Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the nation, and yet preserve the Constitution?
By general law, life and limb must be protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life, but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution through the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, I assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel that to the best of my ability I had even tried to preserve the Constitution, if, to save slavery, or any minor matter, I should permit the wreck of government, country, and Constitution altogether.
When, early in the war, General Fremont attempted military emancipation, I forbade it, because I did not then think it an indispensable necessity. When, a little later, General Cameron, then Secretary of War, suggested the arming of the blacks, I objected, because I did not yet think it an indispensable necessity. When, still later, General Hunter attempted military emancipation, I forbade it, because I did not yet think the indispensable necessity had come. When, in March and May and July, 1862, I made earnest and successive appeals to the Border States to favor compensated emancipation, I believed the indispensable necessity for military emancipation and arming the blacks would come, unless averted by that measure. They declined the proposition; and I was, in my best judgment, driven to the alternative of either surrendering the Union, and with it the Constitution, or of laying strong hand upon the colored element. I chose the latter. In choosing it, I hoped for greater gain than loss; but of this I was not entirely confident...

Yours truly,

A. Lincoln

In this document, President Lincoln is trying to

sound conversational and friendly
formally explain something important
make an acquaintance become an enemy
start a secondary war

Sorry for the long text.

Answer 21

my best guess is the second

Answer 22

ok were's the question

Answer 23

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Answer 24

Done.

Answer 25

ok.

Answer 26

not really the answer i expected

Answer 27

hello @micahm

Answer 28

hey @micahm

Answer 29

@King.Void

Answer 30

@King.Void.