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  1. Compensation was what the holders in the US wanted as well, just like the British, but Lincoln and the new Republicans had other ideas: invasion of the south and martial law. Their real reason for the invasion was that if they won, which they did, they could quickly pass constitutional amendments, without any southern state's vote that the Federalists had been longing for, such as doing away with states' rights since the founding. The Federalists (new Republicans) used war instead of paying the holders.
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  2.  @williamromine5715  Which part? I ask because the new Republicans, who were, indeed, the old Federalists under Clay and the Whigs, did both of the things I mentioned. The slave owners asked for compensation, just like Britain, and congress denied them. They claimed that they couldn't afford the cost. At the end of the war, the US Congress quickly passed the 13th and 14th amendments without the southern states' vote because they had seceded, they claimed. This is all documented history, and the states lost their sovereignty over this one-sided vote by that congress. The states were told that to reenter the union, and have a seat in congress, they had to agree to the north's terms, thus, the 14th Amendment was passed by a northern states' ran congress on June 13, 1866, and ratified on July 9, 1868, which permanently tied state law to federal law and the US Supreme Court. " The amendment was bitterly contested, particularly by the states of the defeated Confederacy, which were forced to ratify it in order to regain representation in Congress." -- Wiki on the 14th Amendment A few southern states had to rewrite their constitutions over it. This usurpation of states' rights was done by the The Due Process Clause and The Privileges or Immunities Clause of the 14th Amendment. Thus, now, federal law trumps state law. It's much like how Britain was hoodwinked by the EU, and lost its sovereignty, but that was done by treaty.
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