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To: Resolute Conservative
Here is a start: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2001/09/donald-w-miller-jr-md/a-jeffersonian-view-of-the-civil-war/

Yes well I can certainly understand how you can say what you have been saying if you rely on sources like that.

46 posted on 05/12/2015 3:48:51 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

You are aware that Missouri was a northern slave state and did not free slaves until the end of the war?

Some people were critical of the proclamation for only freeing some of the slaves. Others, including Frederick Douglass, were jubilant. Douglass felt that it was the beginning of the end of slavery, and that it would act as a “moral bombshell” to the Confederacy. Yet he and others feared that Lincoln would give in to pressure from northern conservatives, and would fail to keep his promise. Despite the opposition, however, the president remained firm. On January 1, 1863, he issued the final Emancipation Proclamation. With it he officially freed all slaves within the states or parts of states that were in rebellion and not in Union hands. This left one million slaves in Union territory still in bondage.


48 posted on 05/12/2015 3:53:01 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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