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Thanks for finally declaring that you don't favor equal rights for all men.

Nonsense. You stated that I'd "probably like to have the EP made null and void too." To which I replied "If it's illegal yes."

So you are putting U.S. law (slavery being legal in the U.S. at the time) over natural or God's law. That seems odd.

Have you ever heard of this document called the Declaration of Independence?

But can you show in the record that anyone ever held the EP to be illegal?

Walt

So you are putting U.S. law (slavery being legal in the U.S. at the time) over natural or God's law. That seems odd.

You deny the right of self-government. That seems odd.

But can you show in the record that anyone ever held the EP to be illegal?

This is too easy:

"I felt that measures [the Emancipation Proclamation], otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful [ex post facto], by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the constitution, through the preservation of the nation."
Abrahm Lincoln, "Letter To To Albert G. Hodges", 4 Apr 1864, Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, (Roy P. Basler, ed.), New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953-1955, Vol. VII., p. 241.