亚伯拉罕·林肯最初的建议 — — 补偿奴隶主解放农奴的行为，从而终结不道德的奴隶制 — — 在财政上根本无法承担，因此北方联邦 — — 根据蓄奴联邦的说法 — — 决定剥夺南方的蓄奴权。
Abraham Lincoln’s original proposal to end the immoral practice of slavery by compensating slave owners for manumission was unacceptably expensive, so the Union, according to the slave-holding Confederacy, was determined to expropriate the South.