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You're putting the cart before the horse. Just because the south ceceeded over the fear of the end of slavery doesn't mean that the north fought to abolish it.
The Emancipation Proclamation was a war tactic and ending slavery was never really considered before then.
But to hear you tell it, the northern slave states were fighting to end slavery in their own states. A feat they could have accomplished without fighting.
In fact one might think that those northern slave states would have ended slavery in their own states before fighting to end it in the South. Just an obvious observation from anyone that realizes that 4 slave states fought for the north.
You have been given 2 referenced to Historical works that dismiss the notion that there was no regard for abolishing slavery among the Union Army before the Emancipation proclamation. In retort all you did was argue that SOME didnt have the same sentiment and go right back to repeating the claim. But let's entertain your notion for half a second:
If the North didnt give a f*ck about abolishing slavery then WHY would Lincoln use the Emancipation Proclamation as a "War Tactic?" That makes even less sense. Lincoln was under tremendous geopolitical pressure to end slavery, bot only did Union Soldiers want it abolished, and racists in the North, but the World did under threat of economic sanction against the US.
Again you're attempting to use the small fires approach. Yes some slave States remained in the Union, are you going to say why? You going to detail that each of those States was struggling between Union loyalists and Confederates who had drafted articles of secession, but were unable to fully take control of the States? Or are you going to misrepresent the positions of the States to bolster an argument you already weren't making very well.