What a steaming load of confederate apologist bullshit from De Mint. Let’s just take this line by line.

Well the reason that the slaves were eventually freed was the Constitution, it was like the conscience of the American people.

As made manifest in the Union armies that invaded the Confederacy after it started the civil war, and for 10+ years of military occupation and rule thereafter.

Unfortunately there were some court decisions like Dred Scott and others that defined some people as property, but the Constitution kept calling us back to ‘all men are created equal and we have inalienable rights’ in the minds of God.

Constitution quote fail as noted above. More significantly, slavery was hardly a creation of the Dred Scott decision. People as property is an inherent feature of slavery, especially slavery as in the US.

But a lot of the move to free the slaves came from the people, it did not come from the federal government. It came from a growing movement among the people, particularly people of faith, that this was wrong.

Why is there a Southern Baptist Denomination? That right, the Baptists in the US split over the issue of slavery, just like most other denominations. People of faith were on both side of this issue, so I’ll be kind and score it neutrally, despite the inherent evil in the position that US slavery was ordained by a loving god.

People like Wilberforce who persisted for years because of his faith and because of his love for people.

Wouldn’t want to mention any of those nasty US abolitionists that said all kind of horrible things about the confederacy, so let’s go with a safe British example. +50 purity points.

So no liberal is going to win a debate that big government freed the slaves.

A debate of this point is farcical. It is self evident that big Federal government freed the slaves.

In fact, it was Abraham Lincoln, the very first Republican, who took this on as a cause and a lot of it was based on a love in his heart that comes from God.

More fail. Take it away Mr. Lincoln:

I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be “the Union as it was.” If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free. —- Abraham Lincoln