[capitan_refugio]

"[Lincoln] was thought ratification was a sure thing and gave a very strong endorsement, "express and irrevocable." Lice with it."

Do you have any additional support other than your own tortured rendering of Lincoln's statement? Lincoln was a renowned lawyer. He knew what the constitutional amendment and ratification process was. You need to read more about Lincoln, in his own words. I can suggest several books, if you would like.

"Lice" with it?

[GOPcapitalist]

Do you have any additional support other than your own tortured rendering of Lincoln's statement?

Well, for starters my reading is anything but tortured. Lincoln's support for it was, as you like to say, unequivocal. In addition to that I have the statement of Henry Adams, an eyewitness to the whole thing (his father was the House sponsor before Corwin), who recorded for history that the amendment itself was a direct product of Lincoln's efforts to get it through congress.

I can suggest several books, if you would like.

Thanks but no thanks. Your "recommendations" have a bad tendency to turn out to be marxists.