[jmacusa]

Really off your meds to today, ain’t ya? The North had ended slavery long before the war began as evidenced by it’s desire that any new state be admitted as a free state.

The South felt entirely different(re: “Bleeding Kansas’’).

“Hypocrisy. The homage Vice pays to Virtue’’.

You ought to make that your personal crest.

[DiogenesLamp]

The North had ended slavery long before the war began as evidenced by it’s desire that any new state be admitted as a free state.

No it didn't. That's a lie you tell yourself to comfort you in your effort to believe what you wish to believe. There were five northern states that continued slavery during the war, and even several of the officially "free" states continued having slavery within their borders.

And this says nothing of Illinois where it was legal to grab free blacks and "sell them down the river".

You also ignore the large northern support for the Corwin Amendment, which could not possibly have passed both the house and Senate without support from the Northern states. This amendment would guarantee the USA would remain a slave nation indefinitely.

Sell it to someone more gullible.

[woodpusher]

The North had ended slavery long before the war began

Regarding the November 1861 Delaware rejection of Lincoln's plan for compensated emancipation for the Delaware slaves whose existence you deny, see Journal of the Senate of the State of Delaware, At a Special Session of the General Assembly, Commenced and held at Dover, on Monday, the 25th day of November, 1861 as quoted in Charles H. McCarthy, Lincoln's Plan of Reconstruction, (1901) at pp. 156-57.

Whereas, There has been circulating among the members of this Gen­eral Assembly a printed draft for a law to be entitled “An act for the gradual emancipation of slaves in the State of Delaware with just com­pensation to their owners”; and whereas many of the members of this General Assembly have been requested to support it, the said draft being in the following words: [Then follows the title, together with the twenty-one sections composing the bill. To which is added:] And whereas it is uncertain that said proposition will be submitted to this General Assembly for its action, nevertheless, viewing it to be unworthy of their support, they desire to place upon record the grounds of their condemnation; therefore

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, That the members of this Legislature were not elected with a view to the passage of any act for the emancipa­tion of slaves, but with the understanding, either expressed or implied, that legislation upon the distracting subject of slavery was hostile to the public peace, and therefore to be avoided; that the passage of the act drafted as aforesaid, inasmuch as it renders Congressional action neces­sary, would, upon the apparent application of the State of Delaware, intro­duce the slavery question into Congress, would encourage the abolition element therein, and fortify it in its purpose to destroy entirely all prop­erty in slaves, and furthermore, would be injurious to the quiet and har­mony that prevail in this State.

Be it further resolved by the authority aforesaid, That it is the opinion of this General Assembly, that Congress has no right to appropriate a dollar for the purchase of slaves, and that such a proposal, coming from the source to which it is traceable, evinces a design on the part of those having control of our national affairs to abolish slavery in the States.

Resolved further, That this General Assembly having in mind the inter­ests of the people of Delaware, are not willing, especially at a time of financial embarrassment, to make the State of Delaware a guarantor of any debt the payment of which depends upon the mere pledge of public faith; that the confidence of the people of this State that nothing would ever be done to promote a disunion of our National system, but that it would remain, as expressed by Webster “ one and inseparable, now and forever,” having been impaired by the events of the last two years, we are and should be very cautious in resting our obligations on the mere faith of others; that by accepting the terms to be offered by the United States, we should, upon grounds of the plainest equity, be held to have pledged the faith of Delaware for the payment of nine hundred thousand dollars as mentioned in the draft aforesaid; that, keeping in mind the fact that the power of the nation is now put forth to suppress a rebellion prevail­ing throughout a very large portion of its territory, and that in conse­quence of such rebellion and the uncertainty of its being speedily quelled, the stocks of the United States, which heretofore brought in the market a sum far beyond the par value thereof, are now selling at a continually in­creasing rate of discount, we are unwilling to pledge the faith of Dela­ware (a faith which has never been violated) that the proposed mode of payment is safe and proper.

Resolved further, That when the people of Delaware desire to abolish slavery within her borders, they will do so in their own way, having due regard to strict equity; that any interference from without, and all sug­gestions of saving expense to the people, or others of like character, are improper to be made to an honorable people, such as we represent, and are hereby repelled — that though the State of Delaware is small, and her people not of the richest, they are beyond the reach of any who would promote an end by improper interference and solicitations.

Resolved further, That a copy of the foregoing resolutions, duly at­tested, be transmitted to each of our Senators, and to our Representative in Congress, to be laid before their respective houses.