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Under the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln allowed states who did not rebel against the Federal governemnt to keep their slaves-if I understand correctly?

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Under the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln allowed states who did not rebel against the Federal governemnt to keep their slaves-if I understand correctly?

This is an old canard that the Lost Causers have been pitching for a century now to people who understand neither the Emancipation Proclamation or the US Constitution.

The Emancipation Proclamation was a military order issued under the war powers of the Executive, that allowed the seizing enemy property, without providing compensation, that was used to further the war effort. Lincoln applied that order to the "slave property" of the rebellious states. He had no authority under the constitution to touch the property (slaves) of citizens in loyal states. Ending slavery in those states could only be done by the states themselves, (which he encouraged) or via a Constitutional Amendment, which he supported.

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and furthermore, lincoln , the TYRANT & cheap scheming politician, stated that slavery could be PERMANENT & protected by Constitutional amendment, IF the south would come back into the union.

NUMEROUS members of the "plantation aristocracy" collaborated with the enemy, when promised that their "peculiar institution" would be protected in perpetuity by the union army.

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