"Because if they didn't then Maryland,Delaware and Kentucky would;ve seceded and the Union would have begun in Philadelphia not Washington."
Not intending to join in a names contest, but does that not pretty much blow out the 'free the slaves' thing? That and emancipating only those slaves behind the other guy's lines?
(Magnolia Ark. and Corpus Christi TX)
50 posted on 02/28/2005 7:11:14 AM PST by norton
(build a wall and post the rules at the gate)