The difficulties President Lincoln ran into while trying to pass the thirteenth amendment were racism from people in the house, and resistance from his cabinet who thought it was not a good idea to try and get slavery abolished. People were scared to abolish slavery because they did not want to give African Americans the right to vote, own property, rank high in the military, hold office, and to take white jobs. Lincoln sent people to the lame duck politicians and promised them jobs if they voted to pass the thirteenth amendment. He also said that there was no peace commissioner left in the south that would cancel the amendment. Lincoln lied saying there was no peace commissioner even though there was one in Richmond. The tricks Lincoln used were bribery to politicians, and also he committed lies to congress about the peace commissioner which could have led to an impeachment of Lincoln. Lincoln believed the amendment was so important because it got rid of slavery which would also end the war. Lincoln also believed the amendment was important because if the constitution was not changed then the emancipation proclamation could have been cancelled.