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[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 02:31:28PM -0500, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> The "Declaration of Independence" was not made on July 4th, it was July
> 2nd. 

It's celebrated on July 4th because Nixon read it to the public for the
first time on July 4th.

It was intended to apply only to white men. Jefferson was a slaveholder.

As for Lincon, have you ever read the emacipation proclimation? He freed
the slaves in "the states in rebelion", over which he had no control.
It really was a move to allow the Union Army to march into town, free
the slaves and then conscript them. They were not allowed to fight,
but someone had to dig the latrines, haul things, etc.

Slavery was allowed in Maryland until after the war. Lincoln was a 
proponent of a "forgive and forget" type of policy. If he had lived, 
things would have been very different in the post war south.

Geoff.

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