On 4/20/2016 7:51 AM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 4/20/16 6:49 AM, Keine Krausescheiße wrote:
On Tuesday, April 19, 2016 at 4:47:53 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Tue, 19 Apr 2016 16:20:40 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

Nobody said slavery is moral. Lincoln was morally against it but
recognized he might have to accept some of it in order to save the
Union.


Which is why he exempted the states that had not left the union when
he wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. He was willing to live with
their slavery if they stayed in the union. (very notably, Maryland
that bordered DC on 3 sides) In fact Maryland had not freed their
slaves until a month or two before the 13th amendment was ratified in
1864.
It is clear that if the south had stated in the union, they had enough
votes in the senate to stop the 13th amendment.
(another one of those "ifs")
It is debatable whether the emancipation proclamation would have
withstood the SCOTUS if the southern states were still a political
factor in the US. It is quite easy to argue that it was a "taking" and
that the government would have had to make "just compensation" to the
slave holders.
Bear in mind, until the 13th amendment, slavery was a constitutionally
accepted institution. George and Tom had slaves.

I sure hope Harry or BAO attempt to rebut this with something other
than insults. I'm learning a lot of history in this thread!



It's nothing more than an apologetica for slavery based upon conjecture.
No need to rebut.

Nothing apologetic about it. Just historical facts that some don't want
to acknowledge in this day of political correctness. Also not an excuse
or anything close to a support of slavery. The issue of slavery
was and is real with regard to the Civil War but it was not the only
reason. It was more of the straw that broke the camel's back in the
eyes of the confederate states who feared federal government overreach.
Again, in those days people's loyalty to state government exceeded any
loyalty to the federal government, especially in the south.

Ironic that it was the newly formed Republican
Party who advocated and pushed for the end of slavery with Lincoln as
it's leader.