[ought-six]

“Yes he did.”

If he had authority over the Confederacy then his Emancipation Proclamation would have freed the slaves. It freed no one, and you know it. You can cover your ears and chant “lalalalalalalalalala” all you want, but the fact remains the Confederate States of America was a separate and sovereign nation for the four years it existed. The only influence Lincoln had over it was at the point of a gun.

[aruanan]

The only influence Lincoln had over it was at the point of a gun.

Yeah, like Mao said.

[Non-Sequitur]

If he had authority over the Confederacy then his Emancipation Proclamation would have freed the slaves.

It did.

It freed no one, and you know it.

What it meant was that slaves could flee their masters and not have to worry about being returned if caught, as the Fugitive Slave Laws required. And hundreds of thousands of Southern slaves took advantage of it.

You can cover your ears and chant “lalalalalalalalalala” all you want, but the fact remains the Confederate States of America was a separate and sovereign nation for the four years it existed.

No other country at the time agreed with you. In their eyes the confederacy was a rebellious part of the U.S. No more, and no less.