Day-O

You said: "Emmancipated slaves were indentured by the North into becoming soldiers, I thought."

This happened in a few cases, but most of the 180,000 black Union soldiers were volunteers.

"Pressganging....is involuntary conscription. Any failure to comply bestows unhappy Lincolnian style consequences upon hapless conscript."

What does this mean?

Some northern whites did riot in New York against the draft, and some took their frustration out on innocent blacks. However, this has nothing to do with my earlier point (which you were responding to): most people in the U.S. and Europe by 1860 questioned the morality of slavery (or saw it as blatantly immoral).

"You asked what part of the Declaration of Independence I was referring to.
With the help of Ostrowski, it seems to me that the unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America - gives the case for legal secession."

You seem to be confusing issues again, for you said that SLAVERY was an economic and political right according to the Declaration of Independence: http://history-sites.com/mb/cw/nvcwmb/index.cgi?read=44877

I'd like to know which part of the Declaration establishes slavery as a political and economic right.

"What Lincoln cleverly achieved was to annhilate the right of secession as a means to keep a check on the Federal Government shenanigans."

The "right" of secession was never definitively established before 1860.

Unfortunately, your discussion of Lincoln and supposed secession rights has nothing to do with our previous posts---which was in Stephen's thread about slavery and the war.