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To: HandyDandy
That is a bold-faced, bald-faced, barefaced, in your face, lie.

Actually, though he didn't call for it, Lincoln didn't oppose such a constitutional amendment. The Corwin Amendment would have been, ironically, the 13th, and would have permanently barred Congress from interfering with the institution of slavery where it then existed. It passed the House and Senate on the eve of Lincoln's election, and Lincoln said "holding such a provision to now be implied constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable." The war began before it could be sent to the states for ratification.

242 posted on 06/22/2018 3:26:35 PM PDT by Texas Mulerider (Rap music: hieroglyphics with a beat.)
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To: Texas Mulerider
Yeah, well our dear friend has on prior occasions, with the assistance of his “pals” twisted those disparate facts into Lincoln having expressed his desire that Slavery be made “express and irrevocable”. I am going to call him on it every time I find him saying that.
251 posted on 06/22/2018 3:33:35 PM PDT by HandyDandy (This space intentionally left blank.)
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