Do you think in 1862 after the emancipation proclamation was signed by the Illinois butcher, and Jeff Davis said great idea Abe we will free all our slaves too (which would have been a great strategic move). Do you really think the war would have ended that day? I don’t. Not for a minute.
“Illinois butcher”?
Abe was in the meat business?
Jeff stated the foundation of the Confederacy was over slavery. Why would he free them?
The war ended when the insurrection ended. The South quit. Had they quit earlier, the war would have ended earlier.
Lincoln has been lambasted because of his statements that had leaving slavery kept the Union intact, he would have done so. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
Jeff Davis would have been promptly assassinated if he had said that.