Causes Of The Emancipation Proclamation

All three primary documents discussed about slavery, emancipation proclamation, union and the new society that founding fathers promised to create in the beginning. Samuel Cox was a congressman from Ohio who knew slavery was evil but thought having the emancipation proclamation would not unite the country. He believed that this proclamation would divide the country more, disturb the economy and cause trouble for lower class white workers at war. On the hand, Hannah Johnson, who was a free slave and a mother of a colored soldier in the union army had other ideas about the proclamation and the prisoners. She believed that the emancipation proclamation is the right thing to do and President Lincoln should stand with it. She also believed that
She believed that a man should be able to collect the fruit for his labor. She believed that these changes were better for the future of the country unlike Samuel Cox. In the letter, she talked about herself, her son in the army and the conditions of colored troops as a prisoner. In the letter, she stated that colored men who were captured as prisoners were being turned into slaves and she suggested “colored men they have lived in idleness all their lives on stolen labor and made savages of the colored people … You must put the rebels to work in State prisons to making shoes and things, if they sell our colored soldiers, till they let them all go.” (Johnson) Next thing she addressed in her letter was the emancipation proclamation. She believed that the president should push forward and this would get him to heaven with all the angels singing and praising him. Lastly she talked about the colored being treated fairly because of war and their bravery and the she stated “stop this, mean cowardly cruelty. We poor oppressed ones, appeal to you, and ask fair play.” (Johnson) She asked for sympathy at the
Abraham Lincoln displayed his brilliance in three minutes and using fewer than 270 words. He started his speech with a proposition that “all men are created equal” which this country was built on. He talked about the war and the sacrifices both white and colored people have made to create a country that founding father first created to be a new nation, originated in liberty and dedicated to the proposition. During his speech, he talked about the final resting place of many who dedicated their lives for a better nation. And his famous saying was “the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.” (Lincoln) Last thing he addressed in his short speech was that the nation should focus on the task to finish the test and honor the one who died by making sure that they did not die in vain. Major thing to focus on this speech was that he did not say word “union instead he said nation five times in his