Answer: Lincoln realized that if Maryland joined the confederacy, Washington, DC, would be surrounded, and the war would be over. As the war progressed, Lincoln initially thought it acceptable if armies in the field freed the slaves of secessionists and claimed the newly freed people as contraband in war.
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