is loyal to the United States".(Stampp pp.44)Even after The Emancipation Proclamation slavery had not been abolished totally, as states who did abolish slavery would receive federal bonds. There was no real consequence to those states who did decide to restore slavery; they just had to refund the bonds that were given to them. So the real issue was not that he wanted to free the blacks but to punish those southern states that were still rebelling against him.
             Lincoln gave support to the thirteenth amendment in 1865, his plans of
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