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In reply to the discussion: OK, I have been extremely mean to Lindsey Graham over the years [View all]exboyfil
(17,863 posts)Remember the EP was only applied to the slave states because they were in open rebellion. In a sense he was using his powers as Commander in Chief to prosecute the war. He was taking an essential support of the rebellion's war fighting ability away from them.
Obama's DACA does not meet that hurdle.
Actually the Copperheads argued against the EP and a whole lot more.
Copperheadism found particular support in areas near the Ohio River, and in larger cities. There they spread their message through newspapers like the Chicago Times. The Times was published by a man named Wilbur F. Storey, and it often employed inflammatory language criticizing the war, black Americans, and Abraham Lincolns administration. Unsurprisingly, the Times excoriated Lincoln after the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation was issued in September 1862:
We protest against this proclamation, in the name of the constitution, in behalf of good faith to the conservative millions of the northern and border states, and for the sake of the only means by which it has at any time been possible to restore the Union. We protest against it as a monstrous usurpation, a criminal wrong, and an act of national suicide.
http://www.brooklynhistory.org/blog/2014/02/25/the-emancipation-proclamation-copperheads-respond/