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Letters Suggest Lincoln Wanted to Buy Slaves for $400 Apiece in 'Gradual Emancipation'
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Posted on 03/05/2008 11:23:56 AM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver
But I thought all whites were evil racist slaveholders...
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posted on
03/05/2008 11:25:32 AM PST
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: Sub-Driver
I’m glad he didn’t take this route. It would not have solved the problem and it would have just justified the continual traffic of humans as commodities.
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posted on
03/05/2008 11:26:53 AM PST
by
mnehring
("Ronald Reagan has made Jimmy Carter look like a conservative..."- Ron Paul)
To: Sub-Driver
In hindsight, $400 apiece could have proven a real bargain.
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posted on
03/05/2008 11:27:09 AM PST
by
DieHard the Hunter
(Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
03/05/2008 11:27:41 AM PST
by
bmwcyle
(I am the watchman on the tower sounding the alarm.)
To: DieHard the Hunter
It would have been a tremendous bargain. Perhaps even better, it would have avoided the disastrous 14th Amendment under which all states suffer today.
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posted on
03/05/2008 11:29:30 AM PST
by
MBB1984
To: DieHard the Hunter
It’s like the gun buy-backs. People only bring in old, worn out or broken stuff that won’t work anymore!
To: Sub-Driver
he wanted to buy them , he also wanted to set them up in either Liberia, or Nicaragua where he expected them to be friendly to US interests.
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posted on
03/05/2008 11:31:35 AM PST
by
camle
(keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
To: Sub-Driver
Interesting approach. I’ll need to read up later.
This could have applicable parallels with the prolife movement.
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posted on
03/05/2008 11:32:42 AM PST
by
Kevmo
(SURFRINAGWIASS : Shut Up RINOs. Free Republic is not a GOP Website. It’s a SOCON Site.)
To: Sub-Driver
Interesting. I know there’s been a lot of debate on here during the various WBTS threads regarding whether the Federal government would or could have done something like this pre-War. Trouble is, I don’t see how this could’ve possibly shortened the war—by 1862, with the battle as fiercely joined as it was, the Confederate forces saw it as defense of the South against an invading army. Emancipating slaves would have done nothing to speed an end to that. Besides, at that point, Southern slaveholders probably wouldn’t have sold their slaves to “the enemy” who was busy trying to invade their land.
}:-)4
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posted on
03/05/2008 11:32:54 AM PST
by
Moose4
(Hey GOP...don't move toward the middle. Move the middle toward us.)
To: Sub-Driver
As I suspected, the article points to this being a proposal prior to issuing the Emancipation Proclamation. I believe I’ve read of this before, but would have to do a lot of research to find the volume it was in.
Lincoln put forth a number of proposals both before the war, and after it began, trying to limit the carnage and the effects of succession. For various reasons none took hold.
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posted on
03/05/2008 11:34:14 AM PST
by
bcsco
(To heck with a third party. We need a second one....)
To: Sub-Driver
I thought this was well known. Are there any thoughts about whether slave holders would have accepted such an offer? Something tells me that many would have resisted.
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posted on
03/05/2008 11:35:08 AM PST
by
rhombus
To: Sub-Driver
Lincoln stated early in his Presidency that his main aim was to preserve the Union. He said it didn’t matter if all of the states were slave, all free, or some free and some slave. Preserving the Union was what mattered.
BTW the Emancipation Proclamation freed NO SLAVES!!!
The Proclamation only applied to the areas of states then in rebellion that were not controlled by the Union army. Therefore, it only freed slaves in areas where the North was not in power.
Because of that war, so much power was stripped from the individual states and taken over by the Federal government that the whole makeup of our nation changed.
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posted on
03/05/2008 11:35:56 AM PST
by
fredhead
(4-cylinder, air cooled, horizontally opposed......THE REAL VW!!!)
To: Moose4
Agreed. After firing on Sumter, the Rebs weren’t in a mood to compromise.
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posted on
03/05/2008 11:37:42 AM PST
by
rhombus
To: rhombus
This wasn’t aimed at the Confederate States. I was meant for Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri and Washington, D.C, per the article. While these were slave holding states (as were some other of the Northern states although of no real numbers), they didn’t secede.
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posted on
03/05/2008 11:38:15 AM PST
by
bcsco
(To heck with a third party. We need a second one....)
To: bcsco
Oops! I meant secession, not succession. Sorry.
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posted on
03/05/2008 11:38:57 AM PST
by
bcsco
(To heck with a third party. We need a second one....)
To: bcsco
Then I wonder what was the point.
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posted on
03/05/2008 11:39:18 AM PST
by
rhombus
To: Sub-Driver
I am descended from several slaveholders through various branches of my family. It has occurred to me in the past that my family invested a great deal of money in a practice that was completely legal, and that money was lost to them with no remuneration.
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posted on
03/05/2008 11:40:06 AM PST
by
Burkean
To: 2banana
This is News? I learned about the letters 30 Yrs ago when i went to High school in GA where Ol’ Abe wasn’t held in too High regard. I have read where resentment over this failed policy caused him to exempt all the slaves in the U.S. in the emancipation proclamation.
barbra ann
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posted on
03/05/2008 11:40:20 AM PST
by
barb-tex
(Why replace the IRS with anything?)
To: fredhead
Because of that war, so much power was stripped from the individual states and taken over by the Federal government that the whole makeup of our nation changed.Agreed. What a foolish issue to make a stand for States Rights over. A total shame all the way around. Of course had they tried to settle that issue earlier they might never have gotten the Constitution ratified.
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posted on
03/05/2008 11:42:24 AM PST
by
rhombus
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