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To: Kalamata

What point are you trying to make here?


171 posted on 12/28/2019 3:41:53 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg
>>DoodleDawg wrote: "What point are you trying to make here?"

The point was and is that no one in those days believed the Emancipation Proclamation was anything other than a war-time political stunt--not even Lincoln's chief thug and hatchet-man, Secretary of State William Seward.

One of those listed (the N. Y. World newspaper) that criticized the so-called "emancipation" was accused of treason and shut down the next year:

"Whereas, there has been wickedly and traitorously printed and published this morning, in the "New York World" and New York "Journal of Commerce," newspapers printed and published in the city of New York,—a false and spurious proclamation, purporting to be signed by the President, and to be countersigned by the Secretary of State, which publication is of a treasonable nature, designed to give aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States, and to the rebels now at war against the Government, and their aiders and abettors: you are therefore hereby commanded forthwith to arrest and imprison in any fort or military prison in your command, the editors, proprietors and publishers of the aforesaid newspapers, and all such persons as, after public notice has been given of the falsehood of said publication, print and publish the same, with intent to give aid and comfort to the enemy;—and you will hold the persons so arrested, in close custody, until they can be brought to trial before a military commission, for their offense. You will also take possession by military force, of the printing establishments of the "New York World," and "Journal of Commerce," and hold the same until further order, and prevent any further publication therefrom." [To Maj. General John A. Dix, Executive Mansion, Commanding, at New York. Washington, May 18. 1864, in Roy P. Basler, "The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln Vol 7." Rutgers University Press, 1953, pp.347-348]

Mr. Kalamata

180 posted on 12/28/2019 7:01:23 AM PST by Kalamata (BIBLE RESEARCH TOOLS: http://bibleresearchtools.com/)
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