re: 154 years ago today.

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“The Union government liberates the enemy’s slaves as it would the enemy’s cattle, simply to weaken them in the conflict. The principle is not that a human being cannot justly own another, but that he cannot own him unless he is loyal to the United States.”

London Spectator in reference to the Emancipation Proclamation

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That is right. Had the South remained within the federal framework slavery would surely have continued for decades.

A huge mistake the slavers made was to give up the power that the federal government had to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

With the EP the rebellion began to weaken noticeably as the blacks voted with their feet.