somebody mumble something about Lincoln that they can't prove?
Slavery was already legal. What this amendment would not have done, and which the South was not willing to accept, was ensure that slavery could expand to the territories. Without that protection the South wasn't interested.
btw, are you trying to REPLACE "Mr SPIN" as the "class clown" & BUTT of jokes on FR???
lincoln, the TYRANT, was a stone RACIST & particularly an ANTI-Indian bigot.
he hated & feared ALL "persons of colour", Catholics, Jews,Asians, Latinos & "muddy-coloured people" (mixed-bloods, like ME for instance.)
free dixie,sw
Horse sh*t! The South wanted to leave the Union, Lincoln didn't want them to leave because he would lose revenue ... you know ... INCOME ... TARIFFS! Lincoln weaseled his way into getting a war going, called it a rebellion to sell it to the dummies up north. If you view things with the eyes of an early 19th century invdividual, you would understand that the Bill of Rights was seen as a prohibition against the Fed abusing its power ergo, the 9th and 10th amendments gave the Southern States the RIGHT to secede. Lincoln waged a war of subjugation on the Southern States, then left them saddled with a debt after the war that still hasn't been paid off to this day. Not to mention the Northern hordes that raped, pillaged and torching their way across the South the way the SS troops would wage war 80 years later. AND ALL WITH LINCOLN'S TACIT APPROVAL! No sir, don't even try to play that "saintly" Lincoln crap here!
But then by your posts, you like Presidents who subvert the Constitution to limit your civil liberties and in effect make you a "slave" to the government.