You cannot have a VOLUNTARY Union, and then FORCE States to be IN that Union...
A Voluntary Union is called a Republic... States are allowed to join, VOLUNTARILY, and may LEAVE at any time, especially if under Honorable Conditions....
On the other hand, Lincolns war, FORCED the southern States INTO the Union UNVOLUNTARILY.... This places them into a position of SERFDOM, or SLAVERY.... Your pick to which one....
But then, comes the EQUAL FOOTING CLAUSE, in which no two states may be unequal.... IF the Southern States that had been FORCED back into the Union are placed as Equals to Free States, they'd simply LEAVE Again....
The Solution to that, is to place ALL the free States under the same despotic Serfdom or Slavery as the Returned States....
You cannot have both Free and Enslaved at the same time...
Free = allowed to leave.... Enslaved = Not allowed to leave....
Sorry, but you cannot have it BOTH ways....
You cannot have a VOLUNTARY Union, and then FORCE States to be IN that Union...
A Voluntary Union is called a Republic... States are allowed to join, VOLUNTARILY, and may LEAVE at any time, especially if under Honorable Conditions....
On the other hand, Lincolns war, FORCED the southern States INTO the Union UNVOLUNTARILY.... This places them into a position of SERFDOM, or SLAVERY.... Your pick to which one....
But then, comes the EQUAL FOOTING CLAUSE, in which no two states may be unequal.... IF the Southern States that had been FORCED back into the Union are placed as Equals to Free States, they'd simply LEAVE Again....
The Solution to that, is to place ALL the free States under the same despotic Serfdom or Slavery as the Returned States....
You cannot have both Free and Enslaved at the same time...
Free = allowed to leave.... Enslaved = Not allowed to leave....
Pick one!!!