And I’m simply saying that if it is indeed hypocritical, then we have to conclude that Lincoln share that hypocrisy. Slavery existed in the north. Lincoln did nothing to do away with that slavery. A fact of history that makes all of your babbling just that — babble.
The quote in question that started this thread was accurate, we did enjoy a government of, by, and for the people as the Taney court defined them. One of Lincoln's goals was to expand that base of people to those that Taney said could never be citizens. And your claim that Lincoln was out to deny any segment their freedoms was inaccurate to begin with.
Slavery existed in the north. Lincoln did nothing to do away with that slavery.
No, just pushed for passage and ratification of the 13th Amendment.
A fact of history that makes all of your babbling just that — babble.
Your version of history perhaps, which often bears little resemblance to actual history.
Obviously you are referring to the fact that the Emancipation Proclamation, as an action taken against the Confederate states, did not affect slavery in the border states that did not secede.
However you are forgetting the 13th Amendment to the Constitution:
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.',
which was passed by Congress in January, 1865, under Lincoln's leadership. It was not ratified until December, 1865, 8 months after John Wilkes Booth, an agent of the Confederate Government, assassinated him.