. Abraham Lincoln and men of war-times : some personal recollections of war and politics during the Lincoln administration ; with introduction by Dr. Lambdin. was so often interwoven with his irresistible he never contemplated the abolition of slavery untilthe events of the war not only made it clearly possible,but made it an imperious necessity. As the sworn Ex-ecutive of the nation it was his duty to obey the Consti-tution in all its provisions, and he accepted that dutywithout reservation. He knew that slavery was the im-mediate cause of the political disturbance that culmina
. Abraham Lincoln and men of war-times : some personal recollections of war and politics during the Lincoln administration ; with introduction by Dr. Lambdin. was so often interwoven with his irresistible he never contemplated the abolition of slavery untilthe events of the war not only made it clearly possible,but made it an imperious necessity. As the sworn Ex-ecutive of the nation it was his duty to obey the Consti-tution in all its provisions, and he accepted that dutywithout reservation. He knew that slavery was the im-mediate cause of the political disturbance that culminatedin civil war, and I know that he believed from the begin-ning that if war should be persisted in, it could end onlyin the severance of the Union or the destruction of slav-ery. His supreme desire was peace, alike before the war,during the war, and in closing the war. He exhaustedevery means within his power to teach the Southern peo-ple that slavery could not be disturbed by his administra-tion as long as they themselves obeyed the Constitutionand laws which protected slavery, and he never uttereda word or did an act to justify, or even excuse, the South. LINCOLNS TOMB AT SPRINGFIELD. LINCOLN AND EMANCIPATION. 89 in assuming that he meant to make any warfare uponthe institution of slavery beyond protecting the free Ter-ritories from its desolating tread. It was not until the war had been in progress fornearly two years that Lincoln decided to proclaim thepolicy of Emancipation, and then he was careful to as-sume the power as warranted under the Constitution onlyby the supreme necessities of war. There was no timefrom the inauguration of Lincoln until the ist of Janu-ary, 1863, that the South could not have returned to theUnion with slavery intact in ever) State. His prelimi-nary proclamation, dated September 22, 1862, gave noticethat on the ist of January, 1863, he would by publicproclamation, warranted by the Constitution uponmilitar} necessity, declare that all persons hel
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