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Topic: Watch Nights mark Emancipation
Proclamation 150th |
Watch Nights mark Emancipation
Proclamation 150th
Associated Press, by Brett Zongker
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Posted By:JoniTx, 12/29/2012 11:40:56 AM
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| WASHINGTON- As New Year´s Day approached 150 years ago, all eyes were on President Abraham Lincoln in expectation of what he warned 100 days earlier would be coming - his final proclamation declaring all slaves in states rebelling against the Union to be "forever free." A tradition began Dec. 31, 1862, as many black churches held Watch Night services, awaiting word that Lincoln´s Emancipation Proclamation would take effect amid a bloody Civil War. Later, congregations listened as the president´s historic words were read aloud. (Snip) This year, the Watch Night tradition will follow the historic document to its home
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Davids918, 12/29/2012 12:00:25 PM (No. 9088705)
And today, the Democrat party has ensured they be "forever dependant on government", or never free.
This can be a distinction for Republicans to ask any any chance, "have the liberal Democrat policies helped you in the last 45 years"?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
curious1, 12/29/2012 12:04:04 PM (No. 9088714)
Need to fix that first sentence AP:
As New Year´s Day approached 150 years ago, all eyes were on Republican President Abraham Lincoln in expectation of what he warned 100 days earlier would be coming - his final proclamation declaring all slaves in states rebelling against the Union to be "forever free.
There you go - no charge and you´re welcome.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
sickened, 12/29/2012 1:02:43 PM (No. 9088790)
Notice that Lincoln´s proclamation did not free the slaves in states that remained in the Union (like Maryland). The purpose of this executive action was to try to foment bloody slave uprisings in the Confederacy. If Lincoln had simply offered a compensated emancipation, 600,000 Americans would not have died unnecessarily. That´s what England did -- and no War there.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
CentralFLMom, 12/29/2012 1:53:05 PM (No. 9088865)
The study guide I use to homeschool my children says that Lincoln´s proclamation was a severe abuse of executive power. He should have been impeached for his actions.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
enemyofthestate, 12/29/2012 2:25:23 PM (No. 9088888)
Blacks in the United States have been "forever free" for 150 years, yet many of them blame slavery for their economic state now. To these grievance-mongers I say: Get off your derrieres and do something with your lives. That´s called individual responsibility. Works for people of any race.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bkt23, 12/29/2012 4:03:36 PM (No. 9089004)
#3 nailed it. The more I study Lincoln and the War of Northern Aggression (I´m from New York, by the way), the less I like him.
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