President Abraham Lincoln receives criticism for not being ‘a true opponent of slavery’ because he allowed slavery in some states while declaring other states as legal slave states. Lincoln thought that slavery in some border states should be allowed if it meant keeping those states in the Union. He wanted preserve and strengthen the Union, even if it meant slavery in the Union. He made his choices on how to react to the war with the concern of the preservation of the Union. He neglected the issue of racial equality. Rather, Lincoln did not agree with the practice of slavery, but he did not want freed slaves to achieve equal status to the white man. People feared the aftermath of abolition, and Lincoln could not provide an answer to the potential aftermaths of abolishment.. However, he knew the nation need slavery to end in order to preserve the Union. Lincoln did not agree with the institution of slavery; however abolishing slavery did not prove to be the main goal of the 16th president. Abraham Lincoln acted out of necessity to stop the secession of the South and to win the Civil War and preserve the Union while not …show more content…
No expressed rights were taken from the South because the constitution did not explicitly state or deny the right (327). One cannot determine their own interpretation of one’s right dependent on their individual interest. If the South did not agree with the actions of the government, they should not leave it just because their minority interest were denied. With this point, the South could not leave a nation just because they disagreed with actions or laws that without unconstitutional events taking place. Lincoln could not justify secession with the Constitution due to its lack of discussion of slavery, and he argued that the South had not right to leave the