President Lincoln learned that to recreate the Union, servility must end. Politically, Lincoln faced constrain on all sides: from African Americans fleeing servility, from Union generals acting self-reliant, from extreme Republicans calling for instant abolition, and from pro-slavery Unionists who opposed emancipation. commanding a balance, he trust the president only had the authority and political support to free enslaved the people residing within the eleven rebel states. In the summer of 1862, he began to draft the Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln constantly implicit his critics that he had no ambition for rescinding the proclamation. He frequent his fidelity to emancipation in this note to Henry C. Wright of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. In 1864, he would risk his political fortunes and his reelection by throwing his full advocate behind the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which abrogate slavery.
