[txradioguy]

"Lincoln did not end slavery - the 13th Amendment ended slavery."

Then who's signature is on the Emancipation Proclomation?

Why is there a big push by some people to push what Lincoln did completely out of the picture and make him almost a non-entity where the ending of Slavery is concerned?

[4CJ]

Then who's signature is on the Emancipation Proclomation?

Lincoln attempted to end slavery in another de facto country, yet left it alone in the Union states, and areas under union control including West Virgina, with the 'excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued.' If the EP ended slavery the 13th would not have been necessary would it?

[4CJ]

Why is there a big push by some people to push what Lincoln did completely out of the picture and make him almost a non-entity where the ending of Slavery is concerned?

Decades of his white supremacist postions. From his EP: 'And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity'

A war measure, designed to incite rebellion amongst the slaves (murder their owners), designed to prevent European intervention. It was not a gesture of compassion for slaves.

[HawkeyeLonewolf]

Because Lincoln DID NOT END SLAVERY.

Got it yet.

The E.P. was a feeble attempt at issuing an order to another country. It had no legal bearing. The Amendment is the ONLY thing that ended slavery.