When, in March and May and July, 1862, I made earnest and successive appeals to the Border States to favor compensated emancipation, I believed the indispensable necessity for military emancipation and arming the blacks would come, unless averted by that measure. They declined the proposition; and I was, in my best judgment, driven to the alternative of either surrendering the Union, and with it the Constitution, or of laying strong hand upon the colored element. I chose the latter. In choosing it, I hoped for greater gain than loss; but of this I was not entirely confident...
Yours truly,
A. Lincoln

In the lines in bold, President Lincoln describes pursuing compensated emancipation. How did the Border States respond? (4 points)


A. They rejected it.
B. They accepted it.
C. They did not respond.
D. They armed themselves.