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Where the president had authority (in the border states), he did nothing; where he had no authority (in the CSA), he did something.

This is exactly backwards. The EP was constitutional as a war measure. It was the ONLY way the President could free ANY slaves.

[Non-Sequitur]

I would suggest that Dr. Taylor hit the books and do some research. The 13th Amendment that ended slavery was shepherded through the Senate by Abraham Lincoln. When the amendment did not receive sufficient votes in the House to be sent to the states for ratification, Lincoln saw to it that emancipation was made a central point in the 1864 Republican platform. Because of this, Congress passed the amendment in January 1865 and sent it to the states. Without Lincoln's wholehearted support and tireless efforts the amendment wouldn't have been ratified. So it is in no way wrong to refer to him as 'The Great Emancipator'.