It may be hard for you to imagine, but the Supreme Court, charged with  
deciding that issue, found Lincoln lacked the Constitutional authority and that  
was, and always is, the final word in Constitutional  debates.  So, any debate 
about it was ended and Lincoln was required to  comply with the Court's 
decision.  He refused to do so, a clearly  impeachable action by any standard.
 
I fail to find anything meritorious in Lincoln's continual actions in  
ignoring the Constitution and his oath of office to follow his own feelings on  what 
he could and could not do.
 
I am sure the 600,000 dead Americans in the Civil War would agree.
 
 

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