Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln's Policy Towards the South during the Civil War

A Lincoln was elected President in 1860, by a minority of about four in every ten votes cast. John Breckenridge's division in the Democratic Party among Democrats in favor of war and peace allowed this choice. Slave owners felt an angry hatred of Lincoln and there is no record stating that he had received a single vote in the south. Due to economic reasons, an important segment of the North opposed the extension of slavery and, for the same reasons, also opposed to emancipation. 

When war broke out, some northerners were in favor of the Union and against the south, while others were in favor of both the Union and the South, and others wanted to be split north and south was liberated from slavery (Foner, 22). From the beginning of the war the north side was uprising in order to save the Union. They believed extremely that the Union, even with all its genocide and corruption, his inhuman slavery and annexation wars continued to be the best expectation for a humanity oppressed and barely woke to the rumble of an idea whose time had finally arrived.

Its policy was certainly not corrupt and incompetent than any other time. More likely you will have to maintain the radicals that they were not radical enough. The social reorganization of the South did not happen. The promise of "forty acres and a mule" was nowhere for the freed blacks redeemed, and just as the rebels held the state domain was among the blacks and poor whites divided. The redesign of the economy of the south has not been reached, and has flown from the North, sometimes highly dubious whites and partly similar questionable whites in the South who sought to participate here were usually also not in the situation (Foner, 24). 

In Abraham Lincoln and Treason in the Civil War, Jonathan White reveals how the arrest and prosecution of this little-known Baltimore farmer had a lasting impact on the Lincoln administration and Congress as they struggled to develop policies to deal with both northern traitors and southern rebels (Foner, 27). His work sheds significant new light on several perennially controversial legal and constitutional issues in American history, including the nature and extent of presidential war powers, the development of national policies for dealing with disloyalty and treason, and the protection of civil liberties in wartime.

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