Category: War Against Southern Independence

Which Slaves Did Abe Lincoln Free?

The easy answer is none.

The Emancipation Proclamation was written to only free the slaves that were behind enemy lines. Those slaves were not under his jurisdiction.

The Emancipation Proclamation declared the slaves in ten states free, but there were seventeen states in which blacks were held as slaves…

There were exemptions as well .. as Abe readily admitted that this move was a “war measure” (i.e. hoping to incite a slave uprising to end the war earlier, as he had no real desire initially to “make slaves free”)

..the portions of Virginia and Louisiana which were occupied by Union forces were exempt from it, meaning that their slaves were not freed. This was made clear by a circular issued by Union Provost Marshall Captain A.B. Long in New Liberia, Louisiana on April 24, 1863. In it, he informed the slaves in St. Martin Parish who thought that they were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation that they were not because that Parish was exempted in it … Lincoln declared the slaves not under his control free, but not those who were under his control.

This make perfect sense as Abraham Lincoln had offered perpetual slavery in the states that had seceded IF they returned to “the Union” according to his first inaugural address when he referenced the Corwin Amendment.

The slaves in the District of Columbia had been freed by act of Congress on April 16, 1862, and those in U.S. territories by the same on June 17, 1862, before the Emancipation Proclamation was issued. Lincoln then tried to get Delaware to be the next entity to free its slaves, but the state refused. Under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution, Washington, D.C. and the territories were the only jurisdictions over which the Federal Government had authority. Authority over slavery in the states was reserved to the states themselves.

So Lincoln had no authority under the Constitution .. but we know that many presidents of the United States have disregarded that document ever since. Even George Washington’s “Whiskey Rebellion” move was not constitutional.

So what law actually freed the slaves in the United States of America?

The date on which the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified was the date upon which the last of the slaves were truly freed. Therefore, December 6 should be celebrated as Emancipation Day.

From Abbeville Institute

Lysander Spooner had it right:

 

US (Israel/ISIS) UNINVITED Involvement in Syria is Over?

There are signs that the long expected liberation of the Daraa region in southwest Syria is about to begin. After a month of negotiations between Russia, Israel, Jordan and the U.S. no peaceful solution has been found. The various terrorist forces in the (green) area, including al-Qaeda aligned HTS and groups loyal to the Islamic State, have rejected all negotiations. For over a month Russian negotiators tried to convince locals to give up and to reconcile with the government. But the hardliners under the rebels have killed anyone who talked with the Russians. The U.S. government has warned against a Daraa operation and threatened to intervene.

From Moon of Alabama

So things changed over the weekend since this article was written the middle of last week as demands from the US to NOT start this clean-up in southwestern Syria have diminished … and it seems that this might be one of the major agreements that John Bolton is prepping for the July Putin-Trump summit.

About 4:50 minutes into Ron’s Paul’s Liberty Report you will hear some of the great news. I would hope this signals the end to the stupid CIA move to attempt to use their ISIS forces in Syria to further the USA’s distribution of democracy which has ruined the infrastructures in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya not to mention making millions of war refugees and driving Christians from all three of these countries.

Reflecting back over 150 years ago, just imagine if the British Empire would have not only inserted rebels in the United States but then followed up with “boots on the ground” for force “regime change” to get Lincoln out of office. Yup, you got it, the same people today who says Assad has to go would not be for the first Republican president being overthrown by another nation’s rebel-backed forces or forces of their own.

Maybe someone looked at history this weekend and remembered how complicated it was then major forces are at work in areas under wartime duress. Maybe they remembered the “Trent Affair” where:

So on November 8, 1861, he [ U.S. naval officer, Captain Charles Wilkes ]steamed out into the Bahama Channel, fired twice across the Trent’s bow, sent a boat’s crew aboard, seized the Confederate commissioners, and bore them off in triumph to the United States, where they were held prisoner in Boston. Wilkes was hailed as a national hero. Congress voted him its thanks, and Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles commended him.

This triggered an uproar in Britain. Eleven thousand British troops were sent to Canada, the British fleet was put on a war footing, with plans to capture New York City, and a sharp note was dispatched to Washington demanding return of the prisoners and an apology. Lincoln, concerned about Britain entering the war, issued an apology and ordered the prisoners released.

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