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To: central_va

Also MO, WV and parts of LA.

Because those areas weren’t in rebellion and thus he had no war powers to confiscate property.

Look, you really do need to get your story straight. You simply can’t logically blame Lincoln for ignoring the Constitution and then criticize him for respecting it in the EP.


14 posted on 06/24/2015 6:03:44 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

The Emancipation Joke was meant to stir up a slave rebellion. That is is all. It went over up in Yankeeland like a fart in church. Draft riots in the first summer of discontent.


18 posted on 06/24/2015 6:09:42 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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