[Idabilly]

And you also know, or should know, that had the Southern states remained in the U.S. there would have been restrictions on where they could take their slaves. So they left, and adopted a Constitution which guaranteed them the right to own slaves in every corner of the Confederacy, regardless of what a state or locality might have thought of it. So why have half the loaf in the U.S. when you could have the whole loaf on your own? Can you answer that for us?

Did you make those history channel documentaries? You're forgetting your blind spot, again!! Lincoln was concerned about tariffs, not slavery. That is why he 'winked' at the proposed 13th Amendment - protecting slavery - forever!!

As Lincoln said, "What, then, would become of my tariff?"

[phi11yguy19]

Before you say “hyperbole” again or ask for a quote, just look up the Corwin Amendment. It wanted to make in unconstitutional to abolish or even restrict slavery anywhere in the states. 3 states had ratified by the time of Lincoln’s inauguration (including his home Illinois), at which point he said:

“I understand a proposed amendment to the Constitution . . . has passed Congress, to the effect that the Federal Government shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of the States, including that of persons held to service. I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable.”

What a saint.