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Why did Lincoln choose September 22 1862 to make the emacipation proclamation?
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Because the Union had at last scored a victory (Antietam), so he could issue the Proclamation without making it look like a desperate measure.
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Why did Lincoln choose New Year's Day to issue the proclamation?
First he waited until the war was going better for the Union, not wanting to appear that the freeing of the Southern slaves was a desperate move. The Union's victory came in September when it repulsed Lee's invasion of the North at the Battle of Antietam. Lincoln issued a preliminary draft of the proclamation on September 22 that warned the Confederate States that if they did not return to the Union by January 1, 1863, he would issue a second proclamation declaring the slaves of those states "forever free". He was basically giving the South time to change their minds.
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