[JCBreckenridge]

Had Lincoln offered what had been paid, ie, market rate, it would have been taken. It’s like the gun buybacks. Why do you think they only get old guns in poor shape?

[0.E.O]

Had Lincoln offered what had been paid, ie, market rate, it would have been taken.

Again, there is zero evidence that any sort of compensated emancipation would have been accepted by the slave owners. None.

It’s like the gun buybacks. Why do you think they only get old guns in poor shape?

And if the government said that you could sell all your guns to the government at fair market value, but you could not buy any more guns in the future, would you take them up?

[BroJoeK]

JCBreckenridge: "Had Lincoln offered what had been paid, ie, market rate, it would have been taken.
It’s like the gun buybacks.
Why do you think they only get old guns in poor shape?"

And you can cite some documentation -- anything -- to show that is something other than a pro-Confederate's wet dream?