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He was wanting to issue it in the summer of 1862, in order to keep the British from helping the Confederates during their string of victories under the newly-promoted Robert E. Lee. (If the war was officially declared to be a crusade against slavery, the British could not be seen to intervene on the other side.)

But if he issued it while the Confederates were winning, it would look like a desperate measure.

That's why he had to wait till the Northern victory at Antietam in September, before he made the historic Proclamation.

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