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To: Paisan
The Emancipation Proclamation doesn't make any judgements except to reference the particular states as 'those being in rebellion..".

It does not refer to any states being in rebellion. The text was worded very carefully. See #104.

106 posted on 08/18/2005 1:25:08 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Vilings Stuned my Beeber: Or, How I Learned to Live with Embarrassing NoSpellCheck Titles.)
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To: FredZarguna

Semantics. Are the 'people' the state, or is 'geography' the state?
But yes, for the purposes of not making the case for the states being in rebellion, and therefore providing a tacit admission that they are part of a recognized 'other' union, in this case 'The Confederacy', Lincoln worded the Proclamation correctly.


112 posted on 08/18/2005 2:10:27 PM PDT by Paisan
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