Lincoln's Message From The Passage Analysis

Lincoln's message from the passage was that he did not believe it was necessary to have a military emancipation (which is the freedom through joining the war to arm "blacks" so they can fight in the civil war.). However, in July during the war, he decided to promote compensated emancipation (freedom being paid), with the idea that the previous two would eventually become a necessity. When he was denied compensated emancipation. Lincoln was then faced with either losing the Civil war or allowing military emancipation and arming the black skinned soldiers. All in the hopes that the Union would win, but he was not very confident in the changes they had against the south.