In lincoln view what is the meaning of civil war

Abraham Lincoln thought that the Civil war was a way for the Confedarate and Union, to fight out a dispute, and learn right from wrong.

Explanation:

North and South America was called Union and Confederate states respectively. African-Americans formed a major populace and there was a large schism that existed between these two forms of states.

Abraham Lincoln, who was the congress person and person of state legislature of Illinois belonged to Republican Party had supported for the non-spreading of slavery in confederate states, His speeches were revolving around preventing the freedom of union states.

Gradually, the African Americans started to claim their citizenship and protested which made Lincoln to declare Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. This measure had a deep impact and sought to end slavery and all the insubordinate states were engrossed into union states.  

i confess that there are several parts of this constitution which i do not at present approve, but i am not sure i shall never approve them: for having lived long, i have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which i once thought right, but found to be otherwise. it is therefore that the older i grow, the more apt i am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.

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