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To: donmeaker
King Lincoln did the same a year later.

PresidentKing Lincoln signed The Enrollment Act on March 3, 1863, requiring the enrollment of every male citizen and those immigrants who had filed for citizenship between ages twenty and forty-five. Federal agents established a quota of new troops due from each congressional district.

95 posted on 03/25/2012 6:35:20 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

It was the same, except that the pretended confederate government had no legitimacy, and was fighting that slavery should be made permanent. By contrast the legitimate US government was fighting to put down an insurrection that intended to make human slavery permanent.


97 posted on 03/25/2012 11:14:21 PM PDT by donmeaker (Blunderbuss: A short weapon, ... now superceded in civilized countries by more advanced weaponry.)
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