Kirk Freeman
Grandmaster
"Mr. Freeman, under what authority did the United States have to declare war on a foreign nation to stop a foreign nation from committing an act that was not illegal in either nation? Under what authority did the United States act to liberate slaves in 1861 when slavery was not made illegal by Congress?"
I and others have answered this for you already. If you want to play obtuse, then that is on you.
Mr. Freeman, you are saying that Lincoln's plan to free the slaves was to create a war and free slaves through periodic intervals of collection and release? What a horribly ill-conceived, inefficient, and frankly revisionist mechanism for accomplishing a goal. And, as slavery was legal in the United States, you still have to answer the question of what authority the United States had to effect such a plan.
As the North advanced into the South, slaves flocked to Union lines in order to be free. There was no "plan" to initially free the slaves (other than say John Brown and that didn't work out too well). The plan was to defeat the bandits in Montgomery and end the insurrection that the CSA was.
The Northern advance became a de facto liberation of the slaves.
If, as you claim, the North merely wanted to free the slaves in the South, why did the North not extend the South an offer that if the slaves were immediately freed, the South would be free to live as they wished, free from northern interference?
You are floundering here.
The North wanted to defeat the South and end the insurrection. Only a minority wanted to abolish slavery at the start of the Civil War.
You don't get to commit Treason and then live as you wish. You get to die on the end of a rope.
You keep repeating this tired and long-disproven SPLC talking point.
Rubbish. Who gave the Cornerstone Speech and what was it about?
I'll answer the second part, you can tell me who gave the Cornerstone Speech. Your side gave a speech confirming that the South fought the Civil War to protect slavery and defend White Supremacy.
It's right there for all to see. You think you would be proud of his honesty.
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