President Lincoln delayed issuing an Emancipation Proclamation because of his concern that it would:

cause the border/southern states to secede from the Union.

Explanation:

basically the states that wanted to keep slavery, the states whose economy depended on slavery,

i think the fact that abraham lincoln was a tyrant

or probably like what the other person said from sitting in the chair to get assasinated xd

~batmans wife dun dun

false the first governing document in the us history was the articles of federation