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.
Your hatred for Lincoln is disgusting. It is poisoning you.
DiogenesLamp: "I keep mentioning it because it proves the Federalists had no intent of abolishing slavery.
Their intent was all about control, not human rights."
"Federalists"? Are you even in the right century?
Republicans were a different, though successor, party.
Republicans were indeed the anti-slavery party -- they wanted to abolish slavery in US territories, they supported abolition in Northern states and in international imports of slaves.
Most Republicans in 1860 had no intention of abolishing slavery where it was already lawful, but they did not want to see it expanded anywhere and wanted it abolished wherever possible.
Civil War vastly expanded the range of "wherever possible" and so Republicans did what they legally could, i.e., "contraband of war".
DiogenesLamp: "I think Lincoln genuinely abhorred slavery, but not enough to get rid of it unless it was politically beneficial to him."
Lincoln was not willing to break what he understood the laws to be, to abolish slavery.
But anywhere he could legally do so -- i.e., in Washington, DC, he did.