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If you look at the compromises Lincoln offered there, they all ended slavery. Slavery but we pay you an amount, slavery for 5 years, etc. None of these were about to allow slavery to continue. And his comment on judicial tribunals meant that he offered no guarantee that judges wouldn't determine...

The To Whom it may concern letter in full: Yeah, no, slavery was dead and gone after the EP was issued.

... Then he wrote the EP, which said exactly what I said it did? I mean, you say all this stuff about what Lincoln really meant, but then once the confederates were effectively beaten and the EP sent out, it's too late for take backsies. The slave's freedom isn't up for discussion, it already...

You don't seem to understand what the EP said. All the slaves in the rebelling areas are free de jure, and if possible, de facto. Unless it is repealed, and there is no way in hell Lincoln agrees to this plan with a repeal, once the Union is in control of the south, all the slaves go de facto...

Basically this. And what this leads to is the 13th amendment and also a court stacking on the supreme court because Tany is judge right now.

Stopping the 13th amendment has very little effect at this point. Almost all slaves have been declared free by the Emancipation Proclamation. The 13th amendment was the final piece of tidying. It almost certainly would have been passed eventually, as it would only have been legal in a few states.

This is correct. As a condition of rejoining, they almost certainly would have had to agree to keeping the slaves free under the emancipation proclamation, which would be a no go, and also mean that slavery would quickly die out, as the only places left in the US that it would have been legal...

The Union wanted reconstruction at the time. Only Lincoln has any real desire to avoid it. They hate the South at this point for both good and bad reasons, and want to crush it. The 13th amendment is getting passed no matter what happens, and it really has no effect on the Confederacy either, as...