President Abraham Lincoln's Core Values
President Abraham Lincoln’s core values were derived from The Constitution, The Declaration of Independence, and the ideology of the founding fathers this is evident from the phrases that President Lincoln used in Source C. Though President Abraham Lincoln was cognizant that slavery was indeed erroneous, he strongly emphasized that the war was fought, not for the abolishment of slavery, but for the salvation and conservation of the Union. Mr. Lincoln was aware that many northerners would support a war to preserve the union but not a war to free slaves, this is one ethical reason, in sense, that he didn’t want to spread slavery where it didn’t exist as stated in Source B. President Abraham Lincoln took many aspects in consideration on the