The fact that the Emancipation Proclamation applied only to the Confederate states doesn't seem all that honest

ah, but you see, Bobert, slavery was already outlawed in all of the Union States, in case you hadn't noticed.

it can be argued that had Lincoln just sent Jefferson Davis a "good luck to ya'll" letter rather than resupply Sumpter then the war would have been avoided

So you think that the President of the United States should have just looked the other way & forgotten that the U.S. was attacked? That's the textbook definition of treason, Bud.

the South would have ended slavery before the turn of the century

Oh, right - after they were willing to destroy the Union & militarily attack the United States in order to preserve slavery.

I guess you've never looked into the actual history of Reconstrucrion - not the "Birth of A Nation" myth - and what was actually perpetrated on Black folks following the withdrawl of Federal troops in 1877: SLAVERY in anything but name, until the Civil Rights movemnt of the 1960's.

C'mon, Bobert- I think you're way too intelligent to toe the Neo-Confederate line.