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That wasn't appeasement.

Nobody thought that Lincoln was fighting against slavery at that stage.

He had no need to re-assert the original war-aims - which were simply to preserve the Union.

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Q: Is it true that in order to appease the Border States Lincoln first insisted that the North was fighting only to preserve the union and not the abolish slavery?
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