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Allen Guelzo's "Our Ancient Faith," Continued

Allen Guelzo, history professor at Princeton, tells a story about Lincoln that he included in his recent book, "Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment."

Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862, one and a half years into the Civil War. He justified his Proclamation out of "military necessity." Eleven states of the Union had rebelled and threatened the Federal Government's very existence.

Freeing slaves in the Confederacy, Lincoln argued, would harm those rebellious states' ability to further prosecute the war against the Union. Demo...

 

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