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Lincoln may have preferred to have made it mandatory, but the Republican party at the time was run by the northern Oligarchs who were licking their lips at the prospect of a new source of cheap labor.
This is one of the main reasons for the brutal New York City draft riots. Lincoln flipped the script from "the war is not about slavery" to "we are fighting to free the slaves" in order to keep Britain from aiding the Confederacy.
Poor Whites in New York City were furious because they knew the oligarchs, who were funding the abolitionist movement and the Republican party, would bring in a bunch of freed Blacks to suppress wages.
The rioters did like the Jews in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. They went to apartment buildings that rented to Blacks, ordered all the Blacks to evacuate, and then burned down the apartments to force them to leave the city.
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