[Heyworth]

Then why were the slave areas in union control exempt from the proclamation?

Because they weren't in rebellion, therefore Lincoln didn't have the authority over them as a military measure that he did over the Confederate states. What he could do, and did, was urge passage of the 13th amendment. Again, you guys slam Lincoln for being a dictator who disregarded the Constitution, then slam him for not being a dictator and ending slavery in Union states by proclamation.

[4CJ]

Again, you guys slam Lincoln for being a dictator who disregarded the Constitution ...

The US Supreme Court had previously (prior to the war) rendered a decision requiring that the owners of private property seized during war be renumerated by the government. What Lincoln claimed was not a contitutionally delegated power.

[R. Scott]

Again, you guys slam Lincoln for being a dictator who disregarded the Constitution, then slam him for not being a dictator and ending slavery in Union states by proclamation.

I don’t slam him for ending slavery in the Union by proclamation, because that is something he did not do.

[kenavi]

Because they weren't in rebellion, therefore Lincoln didn't have the authority over them as a military measure that he did over the Confederate states.

You are wasting your time making too much sense for these people. I know some people like to argue just to argue, but I never thought I'd see allegedly "patriotic" Americans arguing against the event that kept us as one country and enabled the U.S. to become the greatest nation the world has ever known.