[4CJ]

Increase southern representation? Now that is something that the Northern senators wouldn't have gone for. But it doesn't change the fact that for emancipation to have occured and an end to slavery reached it would have taken a Constitutional amendment.

I answered how slaves could be freed legally, to end slavery itself would require an anmendment. But, as you so succinctly observed, increasing southern representation and having to pay southerners was the worst possible solution to yankees, although it would have been legal, and fairest solution.

[Non-Sequitur]

You answered nothing. You floated ideas that I pointed out would not and could not have worked. Legislation was futile because it alone could never end slavery, or even make an real dent in it. And amendment would naot have been passed for the simple reason that the south had no interest in ending slavery through compensation or any other means. They would have blocked constitutional amendments.