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Strangely, people who defend the secessionists don't want to admit any of this.

And strangely, people who defend the invaders who started the bloodshed don't want to admit that the Northern states offered a constitutional amendment to protect slavery indefinitely.

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Nobody denies that the Corwin Amendment was a thing. It was a last minute bid to keep the country together. It wasn't ratified and probably couldn't have been ratified. It did not exclude the possibility that states might abolish slavery on their own and the constitutional status of such an unamendable amendment was always in question.

Southern slave owners fervently believed that the Republicans would bring an end to slavery, but their defenders today want to believe that they would have made slavery permanent.