claim: says abraham lincoln tried to buy slaves' freedom in border states, but the states "all rejected it."
author: jon stewart
evidence_1: 13 not all of lincoln's legal work, however, favored free slaves. ... of slavery itself  in the district of columbia, and, second, the rejection of the extension of ...... that  placated the border states but alienated many in the north. .... he called in the  state's lone congressman to the white house and asked him to try to get a law for  ...
evidence_2: says abraham lincoln tried to buy slaves' freedom in border states, but the ... and  reach of our spying apparatus" but in 2008 and 2012 "explicitly rejected an ...
evidence_3: while lincoln grieved over the secession of the states that joined the ...  threatened compulsory emancipation as the only alternative of its rejection. ...  wade, commenting on this and other aspects of the administration, lost all sense  of decency. ... between kentucky slaveholders who wanted to retain their slaves  and union ...
evidence_4: to retain the loyalty of the remaining border states -- delaware, maryland,  kentucky, and ... some, however, rejected the idea of fighting to preserve a union  that had ... but by 1862, lincoln was considering emancipation as a necessary  step toward ... of black volunteers and freed slaves, the very people who most  wanted to ...
evidence_5: oct 29, 2009 ... and how did he get from his pledge not to interfere with slavery to a decision a  year later ... but as president of the united states, lincoln was bound by a ...  forced northern authorities to move toward making it a war for freedom. ... the  proclamation exempted the border slave states and all or parts of three ...