[DoodleDawg]

If they voted to pass the amendment, that would have been proof that they were not. If slavery was all they were after, then that would have given it to them, would it not?

So you think they would have called off their secession and returned to vote on the Corwin Amendment? And you call my arguments silly?

So did the US Constitution until 1808.

No, protection was implied.

Nullifies all state laws that would free escaped slaves

But does not specifically prohibit Congress from passing laws impairing the right to own slaves.

That's just a rewording of exactly the same thing.

Nonsense.

Lincoln almost got that added to the US constitution by fact, not implication. He stated often that the constitution did in fact already mean that.

LOL! Hardly 'almost'. In any case the Confederacy already had it in their constitution.

They only made the point more explicitly than did the US Constitution, but they added nothing in scope to what it already said

Which makes me wonder if you have ever read the Corwin amendment, the Confederate constitution, or the U.S. Constitution.

They wouldn't have to be forced to vote for it if this amendment was giving them what you and others keep repeating that they wanted.

But it wouldn't. Their constitution would. So why cancel their secession?

[DiogenesLamp]

So you think they would have called off their secession and returned to vote on the Corwin Amendment? And you call my arguments silly?

Why don't we all save a lot of time and just find out what Abraham Lincoln thought?

Did he send the Southern governors the same letter he sent to the Northern states informing them of the passage of the amendment by Congress?

[DiogenesLamp]

Well waddaya know?

https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-2006-07-19-3689343-story.html

And here.

https://www.lib.niu.edu/2006/ih060934.html

Apparently Lincoln didn't think the idea was silly.