What Was Lincoln's View And Solution Regarding Slavery?

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What was Lincoln’s view and solution regarding slavery?

Abraham Lincoln is one of the famous presidents in the United States history, not just for having slave’s independence, also for the means he encountered the political environment that was lived throughout his period by the Civil Conflict or secession and accomplished to keep the unification among the nation until the war ended. Although the effects were not immediate and the practice continued for some years, it is one of his most important legacies.

The Civil War lasted until 1864, although the Confederate States had already lost territories and in April 1865 Richmond, Virginia was taken by The Union and with this the armed conflict was ended and a reunification was achieved. As president he always sought to promote the republican party as a national organization and led a policy of 'American system', which touched on three important points: protectionist customs policy (by raising prices limited the entry of foreign product), investment in infrastructure and a bank inflationary.

Douglas debates was related to abolition of slavery. He assisted to made the nation as one afterward the Civil War, attained the freedom of the slaves, by determination for the industries that achieved to profit the inner products and that attained developments in the substructure of the whole nation, getting them gradually to the transformation of the dissimilar financial areas, and leaving behindhand the agricultural times.

His first inauguration address was also based on the slavery abolitaion. His face is carved on Mount Rushmore, the Lincoln Memorial is visited in Washington by thousands of people, as well as his grave, his house and the museum dedicated to his memory. It is worth noticing that the unique determination of the conflict was not the elimination of slavery, however the renovation of the union of all countries. But in the end of the war, Lincoln realizes that devoid of the abolition of slavery this is unbearable. And this should be done not slowly, but by radical approaches.

Preparation for the elimination of slavery was carried out nearly the complete 1862 year and on December 30, the President signed the “Proclamation on the Emancipation of Slaves”, according to which the Africans living in the territories in a state of insurrection “now and forever” are free. After that, more than 180 thousand freed slaves entered the forces of the North (Zarefsky).

The Gettysburg Address, the most famous speech of Abraham Lincoln, was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers National Cemetery in the city of Gettysburg, on November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the Battle of Gettysburg during the War American civil .The XIII amendment of the Constitution was adopted on January 31, 1865, almost 60 years after the previous one. But finally it came into force on December 18, 1865, after it was ratified by all states.

Election of Lincoln as a member of Congress was not only a major step in his political career, but was a forerunner of many events that had an impact on the fate of the United States. At this time, the war was waged with Mexico, resisting the invasion of the Americans in Texas, which she considered her possession. In his first speech at the congress that drew attention to him, Lincoln protested against this war. Both he and his party had good reasons for that, because the accession of Texas was made under pressure from the slave-owning party, which saw in this country a new stronghold for the spread of slavery (Cain, 503).

Thanks to the power of argumentation and the sincerity of his protest, Lincoln managed to strike hard at the slave party. And only because of the most decisive course of action, he, along with his party, managed to achieve a compromise on which slavery was allowed only in a certain part of Texas. Fighting slaveholders was not limited to Texas alone. They were so strong and so persistently pursued their goal that their representatives in Congress demanded the extension of the right to trade in Negroes and in the territories of the West, now included as new states in the Union, but where the system of slavery was not yet legalized. Lincoln resisted such demands with all his might, and the slave owners could only partially achieve their goal.

Works Cited

Cain, Marvin R. "Lincoln's Views on Slavery and the Negro: A Suggestion." The Historian 26.4 (1964): 502-520.

Zarefsky, David. "Consistency and change in Lincoln's rhetoric about equality." Rhetoric & Public Affairs 1.1 (1998): 21-44.