sentences:  Additionally, many Northerners came to support abolition during the war due to the influence of religious leaders like Henry Ward Beecher and journalists like Horace Greeley.The same month that Lincoln signed the Second Confiscation Act, he also privately decided that he would pursue emancipation as a war goal.On July 22, 1862, Lincoln read to his cabinet a preliminary draft of a proclamation calling for emancipation of all slaves in the Confederacy.