[DoodleDawg]

You know very well the Southern states would have never voted for those amendments absent coercion.

Thus my contention that the idea that the rebellion could have been avoided merely by passing an amendment outlawing slavery was idiotic. As I told jeffersondem.

[DiogenesLamp]

Thus my contention that the idea that the rebellion could have been avoided merely by passing an amendment outlawing slavery was idiotic. As I told jeffersondem.

I think his point was that the means used to abolish it went against the constitution, not along with it.

Extra-legal is how it was done.