The Proclamation was issued at a moment when the exigencies of the war justified its issue as a military necessity, and when, as a concurrent fact, the public mind was first prepared to receive it, and to give to the measure the requisite support.
Boutwell discusses the strategic timing of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War.
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