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You keep mentioning the proposed Corwin Amendment. I do not think it means what you think it does. It had more to do with State vs Federal rights over the peculiar institution. Only you would read permanent Slavery into it.
Speaking of Slavery, here is what Abe had to say about it:

” My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men every where could be free.”
Yours, A. Lincoln

You see things that aren’t there (Ayn Rand) and miss the oft-expressed personal wish of Lincoln.

You keep mentioning the proposed Corwin Amendment.

I keep mentioning it because it proves the Federalists had no intent of abolishing slavery. Their intent was all about control, not human rights.

Speaking of Slavery, here is what Abe had to say about it:

He said that he believed he didn't have the legitimate power to abolish slavery. Then one day he woke up and decided that he did.

That it would be useful to him in winning the war had nothing to do it. It was a sudden moral need to do it.

I think Lincoln genuinely abhorred slavery, but not enough to get rid of it unless it was politically beneficial to him.