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This 1861 letter from President Abraham Lincoln contains a request of support from the governor of Florida for a constitutional amendment on slavery.

John A. Lupton, associate director/editor of "The Papers of Abraham Lincoln", a project of the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, looks over an 1861 letter from President Lincoln in the archives of the Lehigh County Historical Society Tuesday.

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'Ol Dixie ping

[groanup]

What was the exact date in 1861?

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"The letter John Lupton found Tuesday in the Lehigh County Historical Society's holdings was one Lincoln wrote as part of an unsuccessful ratification process for a constitutional amendment Congress adopted during the term of his predecessor, President James Buchanan, that would have made slavery the law of the land.

The president remembered for abolishing slavery had been willing to push the amendment as "kind of a carrot to the Southern states" if that would preserve the union, said Lupton, associate director of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln Project of the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency."

Debunks the claim slavery was the root cause of the war.

[Rastus]

This is the fourth copy and it's considered "rare?" Huh. I'd be lucky if just one copy exists of any e-mail I've ever sent.

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[Ciexyz]

Can't open those links.

[Tall_Texan]

Must have sent the letter by Express Mail...

[Eva]

This is interesting because I recently learned that the Spainish colony in Florida was the first colony to ban slavery, as slavery had already been banned in Spain.

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