Abraham Lincoln's speech analysis

Abraham Lincoln could made the decisions he did because he thought he owed everything to his home town, as he says in line 2 of the speech: "To this place (...), I owe everything." in this quote we can see the feeling Lincoln felt that he owed everything to his home town and that being a member of the house of representatives and later being the president of the united states could help him achieve that goal, which could have included his opinion against slavery which maybe helped him take decisions as for example the emancipation proclamation.