The sudden change in Abraham Lincoln's original intention for the war was developed as a result of disagreements over the emancipation of slaves in the south. The Union's original intention for the war was to save the Union by trying to force the Confederate states to revert back to the original compromise. Lincoln believed the southern states did not have the right to secede in the first place. However, as the war progressed, Lincoln changed his purpose for the war to freeing the slaves in the south. Originally, Lincoln believed that emancipating all the slaves in the south would cause him to lose the support of the northern anti-slavery believers who only wanted to stop the spread of slavery and were more focused on saving the Union. After
