Treaties cannot override the constitution, not even the Confederate one."
FLT-bird: "You say its bogus.
Maybe it even is.
However if both the President and the Congress went along with it then it would be done regardless of the actual constitutional niceties....as we both know.
They'd hardly be the only government in North America to have trampled on their constitution in order to do what they thought necessary to win."
Lost Causers' accusations that, "Lincoln trampled the Constitution" are nonsense but what's even more so is their eagerness to excuse Confederates for the same acts.
What's up with that?
DoodleDawg on Confederate Congress' alleged approval of Kenner's mission: "Did they give their approval? If so, when?"
FLT-bird: "1864. and in anticipation of your next tiresome gambit, feel free to look it up for yourself."
Any claims that FLT-bird might have to legitimacy disappears with comments like that -- "look it up yourself".
The fact is that FLT-bird simply misremembers what he thinks he read "somewhere" at some time, and now is too much the coward to admit he's wrong on this detail.
The Kenner Mission:
- "...Kenner suggested that Davis tell both governments [France & Britain] that the Confederacy would abolish slavery.
No timeframe was discussed, and Kenner originally floated the idea of presenting the plan to the Confederate Congress.
Davis asked Kenner not to do so and rejected the idea outright, thinking that the situation was not yet desperate enough to warrant such a move, but in late 1864 he sent for Kenner and told him to put the plan in motion.
Kenner was given credentials and set out on a secret mission to Europe in January 1865."
Had Davis done it in January 1862, he could have won the war, but in January 1865 it was far too little, too late.