Is it true that Abraham Lincoln was intoxicated when he (accidentally) freed the slaves?

Question

I heard someone once say that Lincoln didn't know what he had accidentally done until the next day.

Answer 1

Get out your old history  book and dust it off.  This is so untrue...

Answer 2

Lincoln didn't even free the slaves in the first place. The EP only freed the slaves in the seceded states. It did not affect the ones the slave states that did not seced (Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and Delaware). It had no effect because the states weren't even in the Union. That would be like George Bush saying that he frees the Russians which aren't part of the USA.

Answer 3

absolutely not.

The misconception is that initially, Lincoln had no intention of freeing the slaves. It was well into the Civil War that he finally did free them. It was wholly a political move in order for the Union to win the war. Up until the slaves were freed, the Union was actually LOSING the civil war. The Union was more industrialized and didn't have the manpower or the resources to continue. Lincoln took a gamble and freed the slaves in the hopes that many of them would leave, move up North and join the Union army. They were promised a wage with 10 acres and a mule upon completion of their enlistment (hence the start of the reparation movement) A good number of the newly freed slaves did just that. They moved North and joined the Union army. With the newly replenished manpower, as well as those who know how to use resources they didn't know they had, the Union turned the tide.

Whomever told you that line was lying. Lincoln knew exactly what he was doing in freeing the slaves.  

Answer 4

no.  don't trust "someone."

Answer 5

no, he knew what he was doing. a president can't just wake up one morning and decided to pass a law. just like today it had to go through a process. twinkle is apparently uneducated if she feels like it was move to cripple the south. it was a move in an attempt to unite this country which ignorant people like twinkle if they truly knew there history would know instead of blasting out stupid comments!

Answer 6

That is not true.

Lincoln freed the slaves because the Civil War was an economic war and freeing the slaves was a huge blow to the South economically.  

Answer 7

No, he wasn't. Nor do I think he was trying to "cripple the South". He was exerting central Governmental control over the state's rights issue of slavery. Certain states wanted to be able to determine whether they could keep slaves and he believed it was the Government's job to determine this type of policy.

Answer 8

No, I don't think Lincoln drank alcohol.  He laft that up to Grant and his Pinkerton guards especially the one that was drunk and asleep during his assassination.