[TheDon]

This part is blatantly false:

"The very words of his 1863 Emancipation Proclamation revealed his deceit and cunning; it freed those slaves held "within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States." It didn't apply to slaves in West Virginia and areas and states not in rebellion. Like Gen. Ulysses Grant's slaves, they had to wait for the 13th Amendment, Grant explained why he didn't free his slaves earlier, saying, "Good help is so hard to come by these days."

Anyone with a little reading of Lincoln's statements on this matter would know that the political situation during the war directed his public statements and actions on this matter.

[End The Hypocrisy]

>>>Anyone with a little reading of Lincoln's statements on this matter would know that the political situation during the war directed his public statements and actions on this matter.<<<


What stopped him from freeing slaves in nonseceding states then?