[Non-Sequitur]

The fact that Lincoln's "Emancipation Proclamation" didn't apply to the "border states" like Maryland pretty much puts the whole idea of slavery as the driving purpose of the Civil War to rest.

The fact that it would have been unconstitutional if it did apply to Maryland should tell you something as well, shouldn't it?

[Alberta's Child]

You think Lincoln was constrained by Constitutional considerations?

The fact is that the Emancipation Proclamation was as meaningless as a statement that 2+2=74 . . . but only in the Confederate states.