The Emancipation proclamation is a declaration by Lincoln. There is nothing
in it that states slaves should be shipped back to their country. He also
does not address the prisoners brought to Virginia, from England, and
Ireland. It is irrating to have someone misquote such an important document
as the Emancipation proclamation.
Anita Wills
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>I have been reading the past few days about the difference people feel
>about
>the Confederate Flag. I understand how a lot of people feel about it on
>both
>sides of the fence. I am not a raciest, and fly the 1st. National
>Confederate
>Flag in front of my home and display it on my personal mini van.
>
>My feelings are that the Confederate Flag and the people that support it
>wouldn't be getting all of the flap about it if it wasn't for groups like
>the KKK
>and the White Supremacists. They are the ones that ruin the true meaning of
>the Confederate Flag and the men that fought under it.
>
>I also feel that if we are going to down the Confederate Flag because of
>Slavery then maybe we should be downing the American Flag. For wasn't it
>the
>American Flag that Slavery was first under?
>
>If history serves me right, wasn't it Abraham Lincoln who said that if he
>had
>his way the slaves would be shipped back to their countries?
>
>Read his EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
>
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>+++
>
> Whereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was
>issued
>by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the
>following, to wit:
>
> "That on the 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, 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; and the executive government of the United States, including the
>military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the
>freedom of
>such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of
>them,
>in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.
>
> "That the executive will on the 1st day of January aforesaid, by
>proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which
>the people
>thereof, respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United
>States; and
>the fact that any State or the people thereof shall on that day be in good
>faith represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen
>thereto
>at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such States
>shall
>have participated shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony,
>be
>deemed conclusive evidence that such State and the people thereof are not
>then
>in rebellion against the United States."
>
> Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by
>virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-In-Chief of the Army and Navy
>of the
>United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and
>government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for
>suppressing said rebellion, do, on this 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, and
>in
>accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full
>period of one
>hundred days from the first day above mentioned, order and designate as the
>States and parts of States wherein the people thereof, respectively, are
>this
>day in rebellion against the United States the following, to wit:
>
> Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St. Bernard,
>Palquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James, Ascension,
>Assumption,
>Terrebone, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the city
>of New
>Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North
>Carolina,
>and Virginia (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia,
>and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Morthhampton, Elizabeth City,
>York,
>Princess Anne, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and
>Portsmouth),
>and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this
>proclamation were not issued.
>
> And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and
>declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and
>parts
>of States are, and henceforward shall be, free; and that the Executive
>Government of the United States, including the military and naval
>authorities
>thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.
>
> And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain
>from
>all violence, unless in necessary self-defence; and I recommend to them
>that,
>in all case when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages.
>
> And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable
>condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to
>garrison
>forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all
>sorts in
>said service.
>
> And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted
>by
>the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment
>of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
>
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>++
>
>IF I am reading this right then the issue of Slavery wasn't brought into
>the
>issue of the War Between the States until the 22 day of September 1862 and
>not
>a law until the 1st day of January 1863. That is two years after the war
>started.
>
>Also, if you notice, the only slaves that were released were in the States
>that were in Rebellion against the Federal Government. So what happen to
>the
>Slaves in the Northern States? Weren't they still slaves? If History serves
>me
>correct, didn't General Grant still have his slaves after the War between
>the
>States was over? Wasn't it true that General Lee didn't even own slaves?
>
>I have found so far 14 Virginia Confederate Soldiers Ancestor's. From
>working
>on my family history I have found that none of my ancestor's owned slaves.
>So
>I don't think that they were fighting to preserve slavery.
>
>I am very proud of my Southern Heritage. I am tired of losing of my History
>and Heritage to those that choose to change it to the way they want it to
>read,
>and not the way it truely happened.
>
>Theresa Willson
>Richmond, VA
>
>
>"Do your duty, and our country will be safe"
>Major General James Ewell Brown Stuart
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