Argumentative Essay On Unalienable Rights

As president of the United States, I am facing a very difficult issue. I must choose between supporting unalienable rights and my own pride to my country. I believe the United States cannot continue successfully as long as it is half slave half free. "Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil, having due regard for its actual existence amongst us and the difficulties of getting rid of it in any satisfactory way, and to all the constitutional obligations which have been thrown about it; but, nevertheless, desire a policy that looks to the prevention of it as a wrong, and looks hopefully to the time when as a wrong it may come to an end." I am considering abolishing
I issued the Emancipation Proclamation which started the process of freeing the slaves. It was issued during the American Civil War that allowed black soldiers to fight for the Union against the Confederacy. It was also a precursor of the Thirteenth Amendment, which made slavery and indentured servitude illegal in the United States. "The Emancipation Proclamation was as much a political as a military document," Eric Foner notes in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book "The Fiery Trial: Lincoln and American Slavery." Before the war, many others, including myself, had argued that slavery should be ended by the states, gradually, and that slaveholders should be compensated. A key part of the Emancipation Proclamation is its invitation to freed slaves and other African American men to enlist in the Union Army. My proclamation addressed slaves directly not as the property of the country's enemies but as persons with wills of their own whose actions might help win the Civil War. More than 180,000 black men served in the Union Army, the great majority of them emancipated slaves. More than one-fifth of the nation's adult male black population younger than 45 fought for the Union, about 10% of the entire Union