'The legation recognized its significance only as a political gamble and speculated about its feared effect of sparking a violent backlash among northern whites....'
Lincoln betrayed the very people who had elected him, Northerners who wanted black slaves to be sent somewhere else.
Lincoln violated that trust. Basically he committed what I have called The Kennedy Fallacy.
Although he was killed by a sympathizer with the Confederate cause, he might just as easily have been done in by a Northern white racist after the betrayal of their cause too by the Emancipation Proclamation.
Lincoln betrayed the very people who had elected him, Northerners who wanted black slaves to be sent somewhere else.
Lincoln violated that trust. Basically he committed what I have called The Kennedy Fallacy.
Although he was killed by a sympathizer with the Confederate cause, he might just as easily have been done in by a Northern white racist after the betrayal of their cause too by the Emancipation Proclamation.
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