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To: Petronski
OK. NOW explain to everyone WHY lincoln didn't free NORTHERN slaves.

the TRUTH is that he HATED & FEARED "persons of color", Jews, Roman Catholics, Asians & latinos.

you cannot wash away the RACISM of "lincoln, the Destroyer of The Constitution" with a pack of CLUMSY, DAMNyankee LIES.

free dixie,saw

413 posted on 04/21/2009 2:22:57 PM PDT by stand watie (Resistance to TYRANTS is OBEDIENCE to God. T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: stand watie
OK. NOW explain to everyone WHY lincoln didn't free NORTHERN slaves.

Because that would require a consitutional amendment. And Lincoln championed the 13th amendment that ended slavery, insisting that it be put on the 1864 Republican platform. When the 1864 election gave Lincoln the votes in the legislature to send the amendment to the states, it happened pretty quickly and was well on its way to ratification when he was shot.

The one place where Lincoln could free the slaves without a consitutional amendment was in the District of Columbia, and that was done on April 16, 1862.

416 posted on 04/21/2009 2:45:19 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep
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To: stand watie
...the TRUTH is that he HATED & FEARED "persons of color", Jews, Roman Catholics, Asians & latinos....

ROFLMAO

420 posted on 04/21/2009 7:09:01 PM PDT by Petronski (For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden. -- Cdl. Stafford)
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