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FLT-bird has posted that piece of nonsense before (~4/28/18) and seen it exposed, here but now is back to it.
The events he refers to happened not of 1864 but of 1865, in the very last dying gasps of the Confederacy Davis sent Duncan F. Kenner to France & Britain offering abolition in exchange for recognition.
The French told Davis’ emissary: sure, if the Brits go along.
It is now almost spring of 1865 when Kenner & others reach Britain and the Brits tell them: go to hell, go straight to hell, do not pass go, do not collect $200, you boys are finished, hang it up.
In the mean time, RE Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House.

No I posted it before and provided the source and you’ve never been able to refute it.

Lincoln “offered” nothing, but did forward the proposed Davis/Corwin Amendment to the states, as required by the Constitution.

Lincoln by his own words offered strengthened fugitive slave laws and of course as we all know, masterminded the Corwin Amendment which he endorsed in his Inaugural Address. I’ve referred you to the Kearns-Goodwin book before.

There was no “offer” and nothing was “turned down”.
The proposed Corwin amendment originated with Jefferson Davis in December 1860 as his attempt at “compromise”.
It failed and by the time Lincoln was inaugurated, the question of Corwin involved only thoser Northern Union states which did not secede.

This is false. They were offered slavery forever by express constitutional amendment. They turned it down. The Corwin Amendment was Lincoln’s idea. It did not “fail” as you claim. The Original 7 seceding states simply refused to come back even when offered this blandishment.

FLT-bird: "No I posted it before and provided the source and you’ve never been able to refute it."

I doubt if you provided the sources, but they can be looked up easily enough, regarding: Davis sent Duncan F. Kenner to France & Britain offering abolition in exchange for recognition.
Yes, the idea was first presented by Kenner to Davis in 1864, but Davis refused thinking victory still possible.
Only when defeat became obvious to all at the very end in 1864 did Davis ask Kenner to visit France & Britain, and it was 1865 before Kenner got there.
Even then Kenner's was a secret mission with no notice given the Confederate congress or press and not revealed to the public until 30+ years later!