There is no *FORBIDDING* of secession in the Constitution.
The *RIGHT* is articulated in the Declaration.
But get this straight: I don't know who you mean by ‘’you people’’ but I have NEVER been in favor in keeping anyone a slave.
March of 1861 Republicans. The forces of *UNION*. That's what I mean by "you people."
That's YOU because you have made it clear in you last post YOU are a slaver.
You read what you want to believe, not what is written. Being pro-law and pro-constitutional-amendment-process is not pro-slavery.
What's a matter with you? What kind of loon do you have to be to think anyone in this day and age is pro-slavery? You've got a serious case of delusion to even take the idea seriously.
You said the South was *RIGHT’’ so watch who you're calling about keeping someone enslaved.
They were *RIGHT* to leave, because they had a *RIGHT* to do so.
And that *RIGHT* to leave has not a d@mn thing to do with slavery. *YOU* keep trying to make it about slavery, because you aren't honest enough to debate the *REAL* issue.
Everyone that tries to make it about slavery is just a liar trying to lie their way out of the bloodshed they committed over a fake, made up "concern" for slaves.
They didn't give a sh*t about the slaves because they *VOTED* to keep them in slavery forever.
Again, spare me the fake concern for slavery. Your side was for permanent slavery before they were against it.
Again spare me your revisionist history. I’m not engaging in faux concern for slavery, that’s a new low even for you. It was evil and a stain on the founding of this nation, the North at least came to terms with it’s share in it and ended it. The South didn’t. You support the Confederacy, so you’re pro slavery , own it.
Slavery WAS the issue no matter how you ans=d the rest of your pro slavery democrats here want to argue against. The Fire Eaters and secessionist framed in The Confederate Constitution. You really are a pathetic case, carrying the torch for a loser bunch of Southern treasonous bastards who were directly responsible for the deaths of 600, 000 Americans.
Keep spinning you moron, it doesn’t change history. The South fought to preserve slavery and lost.
Everyone that tries to make it about slavery is just a liar trying to lie their way out of the bloodshed they committed over a fake, made up "concern" for slaves.
Having allegedly gone to war to end slavery, the North could not make slavery illegal in the Union states where it was legal until after the 13th Amendment. Had the North won the war in a week or a month, it would have had no way to legally prohibit slavery in any of the slave states absent a constitutional amendment.
Emancipation Proclamation:
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Now, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days, from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit:
Lincoln expressed his war power as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. The Proclamation alleged a fit and necessary war measure to suppressing rebellion. The same Lincoln had rejected this as a fit and necessary measure at the outbreak of the war.
There was absolutely no legal bar to abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia. At any time, all it took was for Congress to act. It took a year for the Union to abolish the slave trade in D.C. The public sale of slaves down the street from the White House was going to be embarrassing if the basis of the war changed from saving the Union to freeing the slaves.
In point of fact, the Union purportedly fighting a war to end slavery, did not legally abolish slavery in D.C. until April 16, 1862 (12 Stat. 376), and did not legally abolish slavery in the Union states until December 1865. Despite the 13th Amendment, New Jersey stubbornly resisted abolition until January 1866.