Re: What Happened to The 56 Men Who Signed the Declarationof Independence ?

["Dennis Henderson" <hendomatic () gmail com>]

On 7/6/07, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:14:43 CDT, Brian Loe said:
>
> > Next you'll tell me Lincoln didn't actually free all of the slaves!
>
> Let's look at the actual text, shall we?
>
> "That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand
> eight
> hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or
> designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion
> against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free;
>
> So he didn't free any slaves in those areas that weren't in rebellion, and
> in the Confederate area, the proclamation was worthless as anything except
> toilet paper, since they were in rebellion and not following anything
> Lincoln
> might have proclaimed.
>
> Now, as you were saying?


Such two dimensional thinkin big V....

> From your favorite site, Wikipedia..

Near the end of the war, abolitionists were concerned that the Emancipation
Proclamation would be construed solely as a war act and thus no longer apply
once fighting ended. They were also increasingly anxious to secure the
freedom of all slaves, not just those freed by the Emancipation
Proclamation. Thus pressed, Lincoln staked a large part of his 1864
presidential campaign on a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery
uniformly throughout the United States. Lincoln's campaign was bolstered by
separate votes in both Maryland and Missouri to abolish slavery in those
states. Maryland's new constitution abolishing slavery took effect in
November 1864.

Winning re-election, Lincoln pressed the lame
duck<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lame_duck_%28politics%29> 38th
Congress <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-eighth_United_States_Congress>to
pass the proposed amendment immediately rather than wait for the
incoming
39th Congress<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-ninth_United_States_Congress>to
convene. In January 1865, Congress sent to the state legislatures for
ratification what became the 13th
Amendment<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution>,
banning slavery in all U.S. states
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state>and territories. The
amendment was ratified by the legislatures of enough
states by December 6 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_6>,
1865<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1865>.
There were about 40,000 slaves in Kentucky and 1,000 in Delaware who were
liberated.

So _you_ were saying?

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