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Lincoln did not have the power to propose the employment of slaves, anymore than he had the power to emancipate them (which of course, he only did in the Northern states, remember?).

No more - or less - than any president has to propose anything about anything. What's your point? Oh, and BTW - it's self-evident that he had not only to power to emancipate, but he had the prerogative to do so.

History is written by the “victors”, and leaves out a great deal- in this case the radical republicans.

And the myths by the losers. SOS

Welcome to the march of Progressives.

Lincoln stopped one dead in his tracks with davis. The thing about progs is that they're akin to buses - there's always another coming up right behind the last one.

[Sherman Logan]

Welcome to the march of Progressives.

Lincoln stopped one dead in his tracks with davis.

Sorry, but it's just silly to call Davis or the CSA "progressives." They were reactionaries attempting to impose an older order of society based on hereditary status on an America that had otherwise moved past that.

Progressivism is not the only negative political ideology.