The Emancipation Proclamation, the Declaration of Independence, and the Presidency: Lincoln's Model of Statesmanship.

From: Perspectives on Political Science | Date: September 22, 1999| Author: LIVINGSTONE, DAVID | Copyright information

Political analysts have argued that President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of 1862-63 raised the aims of the Civil War to a higher moral plane,(1) and historian James McPherson goes so far as to call the proclamation a "revolutionary" document.(2) By issuing the proclamation, the argument goes, Lincoln effectively served notice to the rebel states that the war was now about saving the Union and about abolishing slavery. Prior to that Lincoln apparently had pursued the merely...

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