[BroJoeK]

Ripawyer: "Post 16 was not mine, as far as my number 22 being an outright lie, that may be your opinion but I totally disagree with you."

Your post #22 was a concurring opinion to golux #16, both perpetuating the Lost Causer lie that Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation didn't free any slaves, in your memorable simile:

"...it had no more real effect than if Harry Truman, during WWII, had written a proclamation that Hitler’s soldiers could not eat black forest ham."

Not my "opinion", it's fact: that is a big-time lie, so I ask again, why do you tell it?
What's going on inside your brain which says: you must not give credit where it's due but must instead minimize, or better yet assassinate, Lincoln's role in abolishing slavery?

Fess up, sir, what is it?

[golux]

It’s OK, BroJoe. I went to public schools in the North and learned things just the way you did. (I think we had a whole half-year on Harriet Tubman!)

There’s no need to go on and on about “lost causers,” etc.

It’s simply a fact that the proclamation which “freed all the slaves” was signed after secession, ie. after there were no southern representatives in Washington.

RipSawyer’s statement is correct, and conservatively so.