SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
THE ELECTION OF 1860
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He personally called himself an abolitionist
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He believed in rule of law
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He felt popular sovereignty was the way to decide on slavery
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He felt slavery should be up to the states to decide
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Detailed explanation-1: -Abolitionists understood that Lincoln engaged in war with no intention of eradicating slavery, but they hoped that a policy of emancipation would be forced upon him as a necessary war measure.
Detailed explanation-2: -Though Lincoln saw himself as working alongside the abolitionists on behalf of a common anti-slavery cause, he did not count himself among them.
Detailed explanation-3: -The abolitionist insistence on tying the cause of the slave with that of American democracy influenced Lincoln’s overall conception of the war. He would immortalize this understanding of the war in the Gettysburg Address as the second American Revolution, as representing a “new birth of freedom” in the republic.
Detailed explanation-4: -President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free."