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Words That Got a Congressman Deported

- Tom DiLorenzo - lewRockwell

Why didn't Lincoln act quicker to end Slavery before the end of the war?

Without winning the war, or even with the appearance of winning it, Lincoln's effort to issue any kind of universal amnesty would have been futile. Aside with the rabid abolitionists of the North, abolition did not have widespread support. It was only after the battle of Antietam,
a stalemate for the Union -- but nonetheless better than their previous losses -- that Lincoln felt comfortable in issuing the Emaciation Proclamation. And coming out for complete amnesty before the election of 1864 would have insured his losing.

After the war was won why would Lincoln then push the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery forever in the now re-united United States
- the South was back in the Union and the status quo maintained.

DiLorenzo is so blinded by the State Rights issue that he has ignored the atrocity of slavery. States have the right to leave the Union because of rights issues -- not because they wish no interference violating the rights of the residents within their states.

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Beginning of the headline :Congressman Clement L. Vallandigham (D-Ohio) was the original American "whistleblower." Serving as a member of Congress from Dayton, Ohio during the War to Prevent Southern Independence, his criticisms of the Lincoln regime earned him the reputation as the leader of the Democratic opposition. The Republican Party smeared him (and all other opponents as a "copperhead" (a.k.a. snake in the grass). On May ... Read More

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