I won't interfere with slavery and pledge to temporarily suspend federal activity in hostile areas.
1st Inaugural Address
the Gettysburg
But, The government would “hold, occupy, and possess” its property and collect its taxes.
the Emancipation Proclamation
Second Inaugural Addresses
We are free !!
all enslaved people in the states currently engaged in rebellion against the Union “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”
the Emancipation Proclamation
We want free !!
Lincoln didn’t actually free all of the approximately 4 million men, women and children held in slavery in the United State !!
Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of a cemetery at Gettysburg, Pa., for those killed at the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. Lincoln’s brief speech, honouring the Union dead and the principles of democracy and equality they died for, lasted two minutes.
Lincoln's second inaugural address somberly intoned the sacrifices made to end slavery and preserve the Union while calling for mutual forgiveness between North and South as the work of rebuilding began.
"With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us......"