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making chattel slavery PERMANENT was OBVIOUSLY not a problem for lincoln, the clayfooted secular saint, as he said that he would assure the "peculiar institution" was made permanent as long as the south gave up her secession & peacefully returned to the union.

FACT!

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Lincoln did not provide for permanent slavery in his Constitution. As you well know, the political, stop-gap, "Corwin" amendment had zero chance of being ratified by 3/4th of the states. The insurrectionists did. Lincoln's initial goal was to limit slavery to the South, knowing that in time, it would waste away and ide out. You have contended that slavery would have died out in 5-10 years (from 1860). I don't think it would have happened, left to it own accord, until a level of industrialization achieved in the early to mid 1900s.

Speaking of the "Corwin" amendment, it remains, still, a proposed amendment to the Constitution. Two states ratified it, and if it can achieve 3/4ths of the states, it will become part of the Constitution. After all, the 27th Amendment was ratified over 200 years after it was proposed! The proposed "Corwin" amendment reads:

"No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State."

It seems to me this would be the ultimate statement of "state's rights." It would keep the Federal government out of domestic, state institutions. Would you support an effort to ratify the "Corwin" amendment?