Question

Question 1
When, early in the war, General Fremont attempted military emancipation, I forbade it, because I did not then think it an indispensable necessity. When, a little later, General Cameron, then Secretary of War, suggested the arming of the blacks, I objected, because I did not yet think it an indispensable necessity. When, still later, General Hunter attempted military emancipation, I forbade it, because I did not yet think the indispensable necessity had come.

What does President Lincoln describe in the lines in bold?
The bolded section is the whole section above.


The readers who will likely disagree with his values
The people who rejected his offer of emancipation
The times he did not allow military emancipation
The lines in the Constitution that give him power

Question 2
Read this sentence from Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address:

He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, . . .

What does the word woe suggest as used in this sentence?


Criticism
Exemption
Punishment
Reproach

Answer 1

1. The correct answer here is the third option.
In this passage president Lincoln describing the times he did not allow military emancipation. General Fremont,General Cameron, then Secretary of War,General Hunter were all the people that the president rejected when they proposed that the emancipation be done by force as he believed it was not completely necessary.

2.The correct answer here is also the third option.

Woe in this excerpt means punishment. Here Lincoln talks how God is punishing the whole nation for their most grave sin, and that sin is slavery. Both sides prayed to the same God and they were both condemned by him for what they allowed to transpire. It is in this sense that the woe is used.