Lincoln offered the South a compromise. If the Confederate States returned to the Union he would see a bill was passed that would preserve slavery in the South.
From his first insurance address
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******Confederate Heritage Fund
**************P. O. Box 771
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Abraham Lincoln Endorses*
Permanent Slavery Amendment
WASHINGTON (CHF) *- *In his first Inaugural Speech, on March*
4, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln approved a Constitutional*
Amendment that would guarantee permanent slavery in the*
United States.
Lincoln stated in first Inaugural speech,
"I understand a proposed amendment to the Constitution has*
passed Congress, to the effect that the Federal Government*
shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of the States,*
including that of persons held to service. *Holding such a*
provision to now be implied constitutional law, I have no*
objection to its being made express and irrevocable."
President Lincoln even supported a thirteenth amendment then passed by Congress that would guarantee slavery in all the existing slave states.
The*Permanent Slavery Amendment that Lincoln endorsed was*
passed on March 2, 1861 by a vote of over 66% of both*Houses of the U. S. Congress, after most Southern States had withdrawn from the United States and had formed their own*nation, the Confederate States of America.
If ratified by 3/4 of the States, this Northern sponsored*Constitutional Amendment would prevent the federal*government from ever abolishing or interfering with slavery in any State in the United States.
If the Southern States wanted slavery protected forever, then all*
they would have to do is return to the Union and ratify this*
Constitutional Amendment.
The South turned down the deal to return to Union because it was about States rights not just slavery....
We will NOT go quitely into the night!
