My question that I set out to answer was to see if the Proclamation was motivated my military necessity or somewhat of a moral wrong that needed to be made right. ... "This declared indifference, but as I must think, covert zeal for the spread of slavery I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence criticizing the Declaration of Independence, and insisting that there is no right principle of action but self-interest." ... Thus Lincoln was required to be very careful about how he managed the question of emancipation. ...

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