"By proclamation of September 23,President Lincoln announced that he would emancipate on January 1,1863,all slaves in districts where the people were "in rebellion against the United States." This confirmed the belief of Southerners that the election of Lincoln was a conspiracy against the Constitution.A new sense of justification showed itself in the resistance of the South.A little later there began in the army a "revival of religion" that spread from division to division for more then a year.This improved discipline and helped to give the army the quality that Cromwell desired when he said he wanted only such men as "made some conscience" of what they did."