NEVER LET A CRISIS GO TO WASTE...

"It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against States fighting for their independence, (which it was), into a war against States fighting for the maintenance and extension of slavery, by making some move for emancipation (as cynical as it was) as the real motive of the Struggle"…Woodrow Wilson  

The shrewd politician’s disingenuous sham of emancipation is what kept England and France out of the war and the South from winning its independence.  The freeing of Slaves was just a pretense and deception.