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may i suggest that you go take a look at the OR??? do you KNOW what the term, "the OR" refers to???

I take it you are refering to the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, a truly massive work of over sixty volumes.

Now is there anything in there guaranteeing that a slaveowner would be able to keep slaves forever? Do you have a page in mind, or are you just pulling my leg?

Who would have the authority to issue such a guarantee? Maybe what you're thinking is that because the Emancipation Proclamation declared that some slaves "shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free," that there are documents somewhere ordering that the others should remain forever enslaved, but, so far as I know, there aren't.

[stand watie]

actually the WRITTEN GUARANTEES (and YES they were ISSUED in the name of the US War Department.) were PRIME examples of the FACT that lincoln, the TYRANT & his merry band of thugs was willing to SAY/DO ANYTHING to get support for their war against the people of dixie, including LYING endlessly & protecting slavers, who would collaborate with the enemy.

NOTHING was so low that they wouldn't try it as a "method of waging war". as i said: so much for federal guarantees.

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