[WhiskeyPapa]

You didn't answer rustbucket's charge, that Lincoln exceeded the powers of his office.

I can't imagine what you are thinking -- here's what Rustbucket posted:

Interesting argument Lincoln makes about property. I'll have to think about it. Thanks.

I posted what President Lincoln said at the time. The Constitution gives the president the power to use the law of war in time of war.

The secesh said the slaves were property. The law of war allows for the seizure of property.

Walt

[rustbucket]

I've thought about it, Walt. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is basically an "All your base are belong to us" type of assertion.

I've never accepted the proposition that the states remained in the Union after secession.

Lincoln's claim that slaves under another government were free didn't make them so, any more than Nazi appropriation of European art treasures made them theirs.

[stand watie]

you are for ONCE at least partially correct.

the Law of Land Warfare states that private property MAY be utilized for the duration of that conflict by an invading foreign force, BUT the private property MUST be returned, undamaged, to the owner at the conclusion of the war!

as usual, you do NOT know of which you speak. better stick to posting long,boring,off-point drivel;it's what you excel at.

free dixie,sw