Greeley Vs Lincoln

In the first quote Lincoln expressed his mindset of making African Americans politically and socially equal. He thinks that it would be an extremely radical thing to do, he seems to be saying it as something that will never happen or something that is extremely unlikely to happen. Lincoln then claims that he does not want African Americans to be politically and socially equal and the great mass of white people will not want to either. Lincoln claimed that making African Americans politically and socially equal will not happen the universal feeling against it will not let it happen. I feel that has the mindset of that African Americans are a lesser population of people. He felt that they should not be politically and socially equal. In the next …show more content…
Lincoln is saying that he does not support the idea of abolition and he will not do anything to stop slavery. He did not see any advantage of making African Americans politically and socially equal. Lincoln at this time as no ambition to free the slaves he does not want them to be equal. In the letter from Lincoln in response to Horace Greeley, Lincoln expressed why the emancipation of slaves did not happen at the start of the war. Lincoln claims that he was trying to restore the Union in the shortest way possible. Out of all the possible ways to restore the Union and free the slaves Lincoln believed that they did not have to be freed unless …show more content…
Lincoln claimed that there will be a rebirth of freedom in America. It seems that the “unfinished work” will swing America into a new era. He claims that this is all being done for the people. The Union will be restored for the people. In Lincolns address he directs the blame to God and predestination but with a twist. Lincoln claims that America will have to suffer for all the harm they did against slaves. This Great War is their punishment for all the wrong doing and it will last as long as God wants. Lincoln makes it seem like its God who is punishing them when it is really the Americans fault. The arrogance of the Southerners to own slaves caused this war. Lincoln has the position in this address that having slaves is terrible, while he has previously not had a strong view whether slaves should be freed or not. Lincoln’s view on slavery seemed to change over the years, before he was president he said that he did not have the right to free slaves and he wouldn’t. Then he says in Second Inaugural Speech that slavery is terrible and blames America. I do not believe that Lincoln was a political genius but he adjusted his view to what would help stop the