User:Julietravenswood/be bold

Being bold is important on Wikipedia. '''Bold.....Bold Abraham Lincolns's speech on the surface seems as if he has come to bring peace back to the United States by freeing the slaves. While this is partially true, I believe the real notion reason behind giving the speech was to gain more power in order to take back the Confederate states. He frees the slaves in many, but not all the states in which there were still slaves. This is because he doesn't have to do that to get what he wants, and if he doesn't have to do something to further enrage slave holders, he's not going to do it. I believe that one of the purposes, if not the main purpose, of the speech was to bring all the newly freed slaves to his side, and why wouldn't they? He did just release them from a life of torturous labor. While reading the speech it comes across as a sort of proposition to the soon to be freed slaves. He's not really just doing them a favor. It's a situation in which he does something to help them out, so that they feel obligated to help him in return. Once the slaves were freed the south would have even less power to rebel. This compounded with the fact that he only freed slaves that were part of the Confederacy just makes it more and more apparent he is trying to tip the scale. I cannot say for a fact whether or not Lincoln had some moral reason to do what he did, but there seems reason enough already that it does not seem strange to do it purely for the support.'''