[Tzfat]

So he did not have the authority to free slaves, but he did have the authority to jail, without trial, the entire elected legislature of the sovereign state of Maryland?

If Obama did half of what Lincoln did you would rightly denounce him as a tyrant. You can thank Lincoln’s unchecked tyranny and several generations of school children educated in Lincoln deification for the destruction Obama has brought to America.

[rockrr]

So he did not have the authority to free slaves, but he did have the authority to jail, without trial, the entire elected legislature of the sovereign state of Maryland?

Yes, although he did jail the legislature (much as they deserved it).