Were the 13th and 14th amendments legally ratified? Very interesting.

[Text Drivers are Killers]

I never heard this argument before, but jared taylor makes it in an article at the unz review. He says it in the middle of this lengthy 3400 word article.

The 14th Amendment, which gave blacks the franchise, was just as cynically passed. When Congress voted on June 13, 1866 to propose it, not one of the 11 Southern states had been readmitted to the union, so Southerners had no say in the matter. Even by the time of ratification one month later, five Southern states were still outside the Union, so were not counted in the necessary three-fourths required for ratification, and for five of the six readmitted states, ratification was a condition for readmission (readmission was the only way to end Yankee military rule). Even some liberal historians argue that because of the exclusion of the South from the Constitutional procedure, the legality of not just the 14th Amendment but even the 13th, which freed the slaves, is dubious.

It is little known that during the failed Hampton Roads peace conference with Confederate representatives in February 1865, Lincoln is reported to have invited the Confederates to stop fighting, rejoin the Union, defeat the 13th Amendment by refusing to ratify it, and keep their slaves! The Emancipation Proclamation, he said, was “a war measure” that the courts might well find unconstitutional.

The True Face of the Great Emancipator

Phillip W. Magness and Sebastian N. Page, Colonization After Emancipation: Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement, University of Missouri Press, 2011, 164 pp., $28.00 (softcover) Abraham Lincoln is revered as one of the greatest heroes of American history. His face is on Mount Rushmore...

www.unz.com

 

[Text Drivers are Killers]

On a related note, was lincoln really re-elected in 1864. ? Abe did not let southerners vote even though he insisted the confederacy was in rebellion but still part of USA.

 

[Based Chad]

I never heard this argument before, but jared taylor makes it in an article at the unz review. He says it in the middle of this lengthy 3400 word article.

The True Face of the Great Emancipator

Phillip W. Magness and Sebastian N. Page, Colonization After Emancipation: Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement, University of Missouri Press, 2011, 164 pp., $28.00 (softcover) Abraham Lincoln is revered as one of the greatest heroes of American history. His face is on Mount Rushmore...

www.unz.com

this is true.