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To: GunRunner
The end result however, is that Lincoln's actions led to the liberation of blacks

The end result was the enslavement of all Americans.

Slavery was enshrined as an untouchable principle in the Confederate Constitution. No idiot neo-Confederate can change those facts.

"No Amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any state, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State." --Joint Resolution of Congress, Adopted March 2, 1861

"holding such a provision to now be implied constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable." Abe Lincoln

56 posted on 03/06/2012 1:17:05 PM PST by Idabilly (Tailpipes poppin, radios rockin, Country Boy Can Survive.)
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To: Idabilly
OK, but...

Amendment 13, adopted December 6, 1865

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Or is it your contention that the Confederates would have abolished slavery after they won the war? Nice try.

Pathetic neo-Confederate tripe.

61 posted on 03/06/2012 2:30:52 PM PST by GunRunner (***Not associated with any criminal actions by the ATF***)
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To: Idabilly

Nice to see your moniker again.


66 posted on 03/06/2012 4:40:25 PM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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