Why Was Abraham Lincoln Unjust

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Abraham Lincoln was a leader in a time of disparity. He was the sixteenth president of the United States of America. He struggled throughout his whole life, but never strayed from his anti-slavery goals. He worked on his education throughout his struggle and life, and believed everyone deserved a chance(whitehouse.gov). Abraham Lincoln’s assassination was unjust, because he created freedom, and believed in equality; however in his pursuit to further the agenda of mankind for all, he forced change on those unwilling.
Abraham Lincoln believed the savage enslaving of man was wrong, and thought the South’s secession was cowardly and illegal, he believed they deserved to be punished (whitehouse.gov). Abraham Lincoln worked to outlaw slavery and end its reign of terror, and with the Emancipation Proclamation it ended it throughout the Confederate States, and declared all slaves free. The Civil war was not initiated by Lincoln and the United States, yet they believed it was necessary to put an end to slavery. Lincoln was a savior for many people, mand his assassination was wrong and unjust due to the one simple fact that he was the destroyer of an awful and terrible thing.
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He believed everyone was equal, and that, “The abolition of slavery by constitutional provision settles the fate for all coming time, not only the millions in bondage, but the unborn millions to come…” -Lincoln. He believed in freedom, he believed the United States was founded on the idea that no one should be enslaved to another, and as it says in the preamble, “all men are created

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