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To: DiogenesLamp

Now that is a huge lie. There is absolutely no evidence that Lincoln wrote the Corwin Amendment.
“The Congressional session that began in December 1860, more than 200 resolutions with respect to slavery,[6] including 57 resolutions proposing constitutional amendments,[7] were introduced in Congress. Most represented compromises designed to avert military conflict. Senator Jefferson Davis, a Democrat from Mississippi, proposed one that explicitly protected property rights in slaves.[7] A group of House members proposed a national convention to accomplish secession as a “dignified, peaceful, and fair separation” that could settle questions like the equitable distribution of the federal government’s assets and rights to navigate the Mississippi River.[8]

On February 27, 1861, the House of Representatives considered the following text of a proposed constitutional amendment:[9]

No amendment of this Constitution, having for its object any interference within the States with the relations between their citizens and those described in second section of the first article of the Constitution as “all other persons”, shall originate with any State that does not recognize that relation within its own limits, or shall be valid without the assent of every one of the States composing the Union.

Corwin proposed his own text as a substitute and those who opposed him failed on a vote of 68 to 121. The House then declined to give the resolution the required two-thirds vote, with a tally of 120 to 61, and then of 123 to 71.[9][10] On February 28, 1861, however, the House approved Corwin’s version by a vote of 133 to 65.[11] The contentious debate in the House was relieved by abolitionist Republican Owen Lovejoy of Illinois, who questioned the amendment’s reach: “Does that include polygamy, the other twin relic of barbarism?” Missouri Democrat John S. Phelps answered: “Does the gentleman desire to know whether he shall be prohibited from committing that crime?”[7]

On March 2, 1861, the United States Senate adopted it, with no changes, on a vote of 24 to 12.[12] Since proposed constitutional amendments require a two-thirds majority, 132 votes were required in the House and 24 in the Senate. The Senators and Representatives from the seven slave states that had already declared their secession from the Union did not vote on the Corwin Amendment.[13] The resolution called for the amendment to be submitted to the state legislatures and to be adopted “when ratified by three-fourths of said Legislatures.”[14] Its supporters believed that the Corwin Amendment had a greater chance of success in the legislatures of the Southern states than would have been the case in state ratifying conventions, since state conventions were being conducted throughout the South at which votes to secede from the Union were successful—just as Congress was considering the Corwin Amendment.”


74 posted on 02/26/2019 4:03:59 AM PST by OIFVeteran
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To: OIFVeteran
You are glossing over the fact that Lincoln urged it's ratification. You are ignoring the contradiction that someone who pushed to further protect slavery, supposedly launched a war to stop it.

One of these things cannot be true because it absolutely contradicts the other.

I'm not going to bother linking you to the information I have read indicating Lincoln was behind the Corwin amendment. It isn't really relevant other than to demonstrate what kind of double dealer Lincoln was, and I doubt you have any interest in looking at any evidence of that.

I think the fact that Lincoln urged the ratification of the Corwin amendment is sufficient evidence of Lincoln's willingness to trade principle for political advantage when he felt it necessary.

78 posted on 02/26/2019 7:26:02 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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