[JCBreckenridge]

“The next proposal at that high government level was Lincoln’s in 1862”

1862?

Yeah, I think that’s negotiating in good faith. ;)

So between Jefferson and Lincoln there was nothing? That’s a long time with nothing at all.

There’s a big difference between scribbling down how much buying them all would cost and between actually going out and getting it done.

[rockrr]

Of course it is negotiating in good faith. Especially when you consider that the insurrectionists began their treason even before he assumed office.

[BroJoeK]

JCBreckenridge: "There’s a big difference between scribbling down how much buying them all would cost and between actually going out and getting it done."

Of course, but the single biggest reason no proposal ever made headway is because slave-holders categorically rejected any such suggestion.

So our pro-Confederates today suggesting that government compensated emancipation was the answer: they are simply ignoring the historical fact that Slave Power literally prohibited any such talk in Congress.