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To: Bull Snipe

Which freed no one.


11 posted on 01/01/2017 10:25:55 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

And yet, a couple of years after it was signed, they were free.


12 posted on 01/01/2017 10:26:50 AM PST by marron
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To: Blood of Tyrants

The President had no power to abolish slavery in the United States.

The President did have the power to strip indivuiduals and states engaged in unlawful rebellion of property used to support that rebellion.

He used it and then enforced it with the Army of the Tennessee.


18 posted on 01/01/2017 10:35:18 AM PST by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Ask about franchise opportunities in your area.)
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