To: Tommy Revolts
If it had nothing to do with slavery then why would he offer them an amendment guaranteeing slavery?
210 posted on
06/18/2017 10:47:03 AM PDT by
FreedomStar3028
(Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
To: FreedomStar3028; Tommy Revolts
Tommy Revolts:
Why did Lincoln offer the slave states an amendment to the Constitution that would guarantee slavery where it legally existed then? FreedomStar3028: If it had nothing to do with slavery then why would he offer them an amendment guaranteeing slavery?
Presuming that you are referring to the original 13th Amendment, Lincoln didn't offer it - congress did. Lincoln merely said that he would go along with it for the sake of keeping the union intact. A terrible mistake in my opinion.
216 posted on
06/18/2017 1:25:39 PM PDT by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: FreedomStar3028
If it had nothing to do with slavery then why would he offer them an amendment guaranteeing slavery? Maybe he foolishly thought their reason for leaving was slavery, and that this offered amendment would mollify them?
Since it didn't mollify them, apparently that wasn't their reason for leaving.
517 posted on
07/05/2017 4:02:58 PM PDT by
DiogenesLamp
("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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