[Blood of Tyrants]

Which freed no one.

[marron]

And yet, a couple of years after it was signed, they were free.

[GreenLanternCorps]

The President had no power to abolish slavery in the United States.

The President did have the power to strip indivuiduals and states engaged in unlawful rebellion of property used to support that rebellion.

He used it and then enforced it with the Army of the Tennessee.