Who benefits from the passage of this amendment? Would not the most obvious beneficiary be Lincoln? Who else stood to lose anything if the Southern states seceded?
Did the Senator from Ohio really care if the Southern states left? Did any of the Northern states really care?
Who cared? Well Lincoln did. He was the only person that would have reaped a reward from this thing, wasn't he?
So according to you, he was the only person, out of the 22 million people living in the North, concerned that seven states had seceded from the Union.
Exactly what reward would Lincoln have reaped from the ratification of the XIII Amendment.
Are you not aware that the seven Southern states had already seceded long before the Corwin amendment had been proposed much less voted on?
You know, it occurs to me that perhaps the best proof that Lincoln was behind it can be demonstrated by asking the question “To whom was the benefit?”
Who benefits from the passage of this amendment? Would not the most obvious beneficiary be Lincoln? Who else stood to lose anything if the Southern states seceded?
Did the Senator from Ohio really care if the Southern states left? Did any of the Northern states really care?
Who cared? Well Lincoln did. He was the only person that would have reaped a reward from this thing, wasn’t he?
Lincoln and the Northern business interests who backed him stood to lose a lot of money. Most Northern opinion favored letting the seceding states go in peace until major business interests pointed out that it was the South that was providing the overwhelming majority of the exports, paying the overwhelming majority of the tariffs used to pay for corporate subsidies and infrastructure projects that were done mostly in the North and it was the Southern market their manufacturers hoped to squeeze huge profits out of once foreign competitors were effectively driven out of the market.