Uh oh! A Reb!
It’s just that these politicians get far too much credit for issuing a piece of paper declaring this or declaring that when it’s the poor people that have to go out and die to implement their high and mighty ideas.
Slavery would have collapsed under it’s own weight before the 19th century came to a close. Lincoln and everyone else knew this.
What Lincoln was trying to avoid was the humiliation of people standing up to his authority. He arrived in Washington in a disguise, dressed as a woman. He never forgot that. He vowed never to suffer that kind of disrespect again.
Lincoln gave us this gluttonous federal beast which now devours even our progeny.