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Emancipation Proclamation
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From The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference, edited by Margaret Wagner, Gary W. Gallagher and Paul Finkelman. Copyright © 2002 by The Stonesong Press Inc., and the Library of Congress. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster Inc.
The emancipation of the slaves was the single most dramatic and far-reaching action taken by the Lincoln administration.
The action evolved gradually; Lincoln was always mindful that preserving the Union was his highest priority. If he could win the war by freeing all the slaves, some of them, or none at all, he would take whatever route would lead to victory.
Throughout his public life, Abraham Lincoln had consistently opposed the institution of slavery and advocated policies to restrict it from spreading into the western territories. His views fit comfortably with the new Republican Party and its antislavery roots; thus, his election as president in 1860 set off the first wave of secession.
Responding to the crisis in his first inaugural address, Lincoln assured Southerners that it was not the intention of the Federal government to interfere with slavery where it existed. He pointed out that, as president, he had no power to do so, asserting that under the Constitution, the national government could "never interfere with the domestic institutions of the States."
When war came—only weeks after Lincoln had assumed office—his stated objective was restoration of the Union, and he refused to take any action against slavery, not only because he had no constitutional authority to do so, but because he feared that doing so would push Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland into the Confederacy.
Thus, in August 1861, when General John C. Fremont attempted to emancipate all slaves owned by Confederate sympathizers in Missouri, Lincoln overruled him.
He did the same in May 1862, when General David Hunter declared that all slaves under his area of control in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina were free. But the president urged border-state governors to accept some form of gradual, compensated emancipation for their slaves (in 1862, Congress abolished slavery in the District of Columbia, and Maryland and Missouri would emancipate slaves before the war ended), and he explored the feasibility of colonization for freedmen, a plan almost universally resisted by free blacks.
By 1862, it was apparent that predictions of a brief war had been wrong. The Confederacy's resistance remained firm. What kept thousands of Southern soldiers on the battlefield were slaves working on plantations to feed the army, and, in some places, building defensive fortifications.
Black and white abolitionists had been pointing this out from the start of the war and were even quoting Southern newspapers on the subject. For example, the November 6, 1861, edition of the Montgomery Advertiser noted: "The institution of slavery in the South alone enables her to place in the field a force much larger in proportion to her white population than the North. . .. The institution is a tower of strength to the South, particularly at the present crisis, and our enemies will be likely to find that the 'moral cancer' about which their orators are so fond of prating, is really one of the most effective weapons employed against the Union by the South."
Thus, freeing slaves in the Confederacy became part of Lincoln's war strategy. Emancipation was also a valid war aim because of its diplomatic ramifications. By transforming the war into a crusade against slavery, Lincoln could all but ensure that British and French diplomatic recognition of the Confederacy would not be forthcoming.
Despite the advantages that emancipation would bring to the Union, it remained a delicate issue in the North. There were fears that hordes of freedmen would overrun Northern states, take jobs from white workers, and strain local resources. Even Northerners who opposed slavery were not prepared to welcome an influx of black neighbors.
The prevailing attitude among whites—even those who were antislavery—was one of racial superiority, and many soldiers in the Union army who were eager to fight for the Union were not eager to fight for emancipation. There were also concerns over the president's constitutional authority to emancipate the slaves.
But as the war progressed—and as Congress passed confiscation acts aimed at Southern property, including slaves—Lincoln devised an approach based on his constitutional authority to exercise presidential war powers.
He carefully crafted the Emancipation Proclamation as a narrowly focused, legalistic document designed to withstand legal challenge. The president later explained: "I felt the measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution, through the preservation of the nation."
In June 1862, Lincoln had completed drafting his Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. He presented it to the cabinet the following month but, on the advice of Secretary of State Seward, he awaited a positive military development before releasing it.
Issuing the document following battlefield defeats in the summer of 1862 would have cast the proclamation as a desperate and meaningless gesture. His opportunity came in the wake of the Union victory at Antietam on September 17, 1862. The battle ended the Confederate invasion of Maryland and forced Lee's army to retreat to Virginia.
On September 22, Lincoln issued the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. In this document, the president gave the rebellious states 100 days to return to the Union and to adopt immediate or gradual abolition with the assurance that plans for voluntary colonization of former slaves would continue. Otherwise, Lincoln declared that slaves in any state still in rebellion would then be "forever free."
No Confederate state returned to the Union. On New Year's Day, 1863, Lincoln signed the final Emancipation Proclamation, which differed considerably from the first document.
The final proclamation, "a fit and necessary war measure," declared freedom for slaves only in rebellious sections of the country, but not in the border states or in Tennessee and parts of Virginia and Louisiana, most of which were under Union control. The proclamation also included a provision for enlisting former slaves in the Union army.
Because Lincoln's authority extended only to the seizure of property of those in rebellion (no proclamation could invalidate the legal ownership of slaves by masters in the loyal slave states), tens of thousands of slaves would have to wait for the Thirteenth Amendment, passed in December 1865, to gain their freedom.
"It will be seen that the President only makes provision for the emancipation of a part of an injured race, and that the Border States and certain parts of the rebel States are excepted from the relief offered to others by this most important document," stated the Christian Recorder, an African Methodist Episcopal church newspaper in Philadelphia.
Nonetheless, the newspaper continued, "[W]e believe those who are not immediately liberated will be ultimately benefitted by this act, and that Congress will do something for those poor souls who will still remain in degradation. But we thank God and President Lincoln for what has been done, 'and take courage.'"
Although the proclamation had no instantaneous effect on slaves outside the reach of the Union armies, it did immediately transform the war. The war to preserve the Union also became a moral crusade to end slavery, and that purpose made it highly unlikely that Britain could ever be compelled to enter the war on the side of the South.
The proclamation also resolved the legal status of slaves who had claimed their freedom behind the security of Union lines, and it undermined the Confederacy as slaves fled to the North in greater numbers and joined the Union army. Tens of thousands more worked for the army as civilian laborers—nurses, cooks, and teamsters.
Beyond the military consequences of the Emancipation Proclamation, surely none appreciated the meaning of the document so much as African Americans.
On January 1, 1863, free blacks held celebratory meetings in cities throughout the North.
Henry Turner, pastor of the Israel Bethel (A.M.E.) Church i n Washington, D.C., captured the excitement of the day:
"Seeing such a multitude of people in and around my church, I hurriedly went up to the office of the first paper in which the proclamation of freedom could be printed . . . and squeezed myself through the dense crowd that was waiting for the paper. The first sheet run off with the proclamation in it was grabbed for by three of us, but some active young man got possession of it and fled. T h e next sheet was grabbed for by several, and was torn into tatters. The third sheet from the press was grabbed for by several, but I succeeded in procuring so much of it as contained the proclamation, and off I went for life and death. Down Pennsylvania [Avenue] I ran as for my life, and when the people saw me coming with the paper in my hand they raised a shouting cheer that was almost deafening."
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The Grove is an intimate venue and resembles more of a jr. high cafetorium than a large scale venue. Parking was a bit high ($8.00) but ample and a short walk to the door. This show was WAY better than I ever expected! There was so much food for sale in the lobby - don't know if that's a regular thing or if it was because of Ralphie May's request - churros, sandwiches, chicken, you name it along with a few bars selling sodas ($5.00 a piece) and overpriced booze. I've got a new fave comedian. I mean, I knew Ralphie was OK from seeing him on Last Comic Standing, but live and in his own element, he was unbelievably hilarious. He told the audience that he was contracted for an hour, but ended up doing almost a two hour set! His wife was one of the show openers - cute, but very Lisa Loeb with her guitar. She was well received and somewhat funny, but I think the crowd was antsy wanting to see the headliner. We had second row seats and the chairs were really close to each other - I kept bumping into my neighbor when I was doubled over laughing, but even with the concert-goers waaay in the back, they easily had good views with the huge screens on either side of the stage projecting what was going on. No ethnicity or topic was safe from Ralphie - he hit everyone below the belt and enjoyed himself the entire time. He is a genuine person and seemed to really care about his fans, even vowing to stay until the last person left so me could meet & greet everybody. Such a sweetheart in a big way and funny, funny, funny! If Ralphie comes to your town you MUST see this show, and God Bless the [...]!
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The man police say is responsible for causing a deadly car crash on the Northway that killed two Shenendehowa High School students has been arraigned. Our Matt Hunter joined us from Ballston Spa with more on why Dennis Drue, 22, is facing nearly 60 charges.
BALLSTON SPA, NY – More than a full month after New York State Police investigators say he drove the car that caused a Northway crash that claimed the lives of two 17-year-old Shenendehowa High School seniors, 22-year-old Dennis Drue answered to a 59-count indictment in Saratoga County Court on Monday.
"He had a quantity of marijuana that was actively affecting his brain and it was actively affecting his ability to drive that motor vehicle," Saratoga County District Attorney James Murphy said, following the arraignment.
After weeks of grand jury proceedings, the Clifton Park resident was arrested Friday and is now charged with 20 counts of aggravated vehicular homicide, four counts of first degree vehicular manslaughter, one count of driving while ability impaired by alcohol or drugs, one count of illegal possession of drug paraphernalia and more than two dozen other charges.
While he tested below the legal limit for alcohol several hours after the December 1st crash that claimed the lives of Chris Stewart and Deanna Rivers and injured fellow Shenendehowa student Matthew Hardy and Shaker senior Bailey Wind, State Police investigators maintain Drue was legally drunk at the time of the crash and under the influence of marijuana.
"Based on what we can determine with the evidence that's been recovered, that's the viable determination that we've come to," said State Police Captain Steven James, who's lead the investigator for Troop G's bureau of criminal investigation unit.
Drue pleaded not guilty to all 59 charges, which includes 52 felonies. His defense attorney, Stephen Coffey, says he's yet to gain access to police reports or evidence and believes all of the counts hold no weight.
"They can put anything they want in a grand jury," Coffey said. "They can charge him with anything they wanted. I have no reason to believe there were crimes committed, based on the info I have."
According to assistant prosecutors, who handled the case Monday for the county district attorney's office, while in police custody Drue told investigators:
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While he would not confirm the statements, Coffey maintains his client is taking the proceedings seriously and that they both expect nothing less than him to be cleared of any guilt.
"We don't intend, and I want to make this very clear, to go 58 out of 59. That plea is to all 59 counts," Coffey said.
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If convicted of all 59 charges, Drue faces a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison. Following his arraignment, Drue posted bail and was released on his own free will.
While no future court date has been set, Coffey said he's considering applying to have the trial moved out of Saratoga County because of the attention it's received from the public and media. Murphy says he believes that measure is unnecessary.
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A riveting new chapter in the too-big-to-fail saga unfolded last month as a new study quantified the multi-billion-dollar subsidies enjoyed by the nations largest banks due to their perceived invincibility; the Senate passed a budget amendment to end the subsidies; and the U.S. attorney general admitted that these financial behemoths are too big to prosecute or, as some say, too big to jail.
Shortly before Congress broke for its Easter recess, Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and David Vitter, R-La., offered an amendment to the Senate budget resolution to end the federal subsidies for too-big-to-fail megabanks. The non-binding measure passed 990. The two senators also have announced plans to introduce legislation to break up the biggest banks.
Its time we stop subsidizing risky Wall Street practices. Weve seen how too big to fail is also too big to manage, too big to regulate and too big to jail, Brown said. Yet the biggest Wall Street megabanks are actually rewarded with a government guarantee by virtue of their size.
Too big to fail is alive and well, and at the expense of taxpayers, Vitter said. These special handouts create an uneven playing field making it harder for our community banks and credit unions to compete with the megabanks.
The International Monetary Fund has attempted to quantify the subsidies, the senators said. According to the IMF study, before the financial crisis the amount was already sizable, 60 basis points, as of the end of 2007, before the crisis. It increased to 80 basis points by the end of 2009. According to Bloombergs calculations, JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citi, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs account for $64 billion of the total subsidy; an amount roughly equal to their annual profits.
Attorney General Eric Holders too big to jail revelation came during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in early March. A few days later, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said in a press conference that he agreed with the view expressed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., that not enough has been done to eliminate the concept of too big to fail. Too big to fail is not solved and gone, Bernanke said. Its still here.
Adding intrigue to the drama was a separate but related event: the release of a scathing report from the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations on JPMorgan Chase Banks London Whale debacle. With the release of the report, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the subcommittee, recalled that in April of last year, Americans were confronted with a story of Wall Street excess and derivatives disaster now known as the JPMorgan Chase whale trades.
Our report opens a window into the hidden world of high-stakes derivatives trading by big banks, Levin said. And it reveals one overreaching fact: the U.S. financial system may have significant vulnerabilities to high-risk derivatives trading. Our hearing sparked an outpouring of support for action to combat the problems we uncovered.
What last months attention-getting developments may lead to was suggested by Camden R. Fine, president and CEO of the Independent Bankers Association of America, during a press roundtable at the associations annual convention in Las Vegas last month. The moves of Brown and Vitter speak volumes about the progress being made on the TBTF issue, he said. Momentum is building and by late fall of this year there may be sufficient critical mass to deal in a constructive way with too big to fail.
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- Ida upsets undefeated, state-ranked Hudson in OT 29%
- Elijah Sandore, Jefferson: 310 rushing yards, 4 TDs 2%
- Jared Henson, Carlson: 4 receptions, 10 tackles, interception 35%
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- Ian Robinson, Huron: 190 rushing yards, 4 TDs 1%
- Dundee defense gives up just 88 total yards 1%
- Josh Czarniowski, SMCC: 158 rushing yards 1%
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Nico Rosberg claimed pole position for the Spanish GP as he headed a Mercedes 1-2. Sebastian Vettel was third...
Nico Rosberg: "It's a great feeling to be on pole again. So far this weekend has been very positive and it's a pleasure to see that the team is improving and fighting through the problems together. I know everyone back at the factory and at home will have been watching this afternoon and it's a great feeling for all of us. However, we know that this is only half of the job completed and have the painful memory of what happened in Bahrain to prove that. We've worked very hard on our race pace but this track is tough for the tyres, particularly with graining. So it will be a big challenge tomorrow and our goal is to make the most of the opportunity we have from starting at the front and get a strong result for the team."
Lewis Hamilton: "A great job by the team and I'm so happy that we got a one-two qualifying result today. It's a real bonus for us to be so high up, and that's all down to the hard work that the team have put into this car, I can't thank them enough. Of course, I'd like to be one place higher but Nico did an awesome job and really nailed his lap. I've not been totally happy with the balance of my car all weekend, even today, so we need to look at it this evening and see what we can do for the race. Limiting the degradation is going to be my major challenge as the general pace isn't too bad. It's going to be tough to keep these positions tomorrow but we'll give it our best shot."
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Sebastian Vettel: "I was pretty happy with the last sector, as historically it's been a bit weak for me. Now finally, after the last couple of years, I understand the last few corners a little better. I'm quite happy as yesterday and this morning I wasn't too comfortable, particularly in the last sector, but we improved the car. We had a pretty smooth qualifying session, we took a slightly different approach to some others using option tyres only - whether that helps us tomorrow we'll have to wait and see, but it will be an interesting race and a lot will be about tyre degradation. It's good to start a little bit higher up, so let's see what we can do tomorrow."
Mark Webber: "Qualifying went well today apart from Q3. I was disappointed with the lap in Q3 and lost a lot of time in the last sector; I'm normally quite strong there, but I was in trouble with the rears. It's a sensitive game these days and you need to get everything lined up. So, in the end I'm disappointed with the last lap, but everything else I was happy with. It will be an interesting race tomorrow."
Lotus F1:
Kimi Raikkonen: "That was more or less all we could do today. I didn't make any mistakes on my fastest lap so that was pretty much all there was to come from the car. I wouldn't say it was a perfect lap, but I don't think we would have been much higher up the order if it had been. The Mercedes, as we've seen before, seems to be pretty fast in qualifying but hopefully in the race we can turn it around. Our race pace has been pretty good all year so let's try and get on the podium. I'll have to make a good start, then let's see what happens."
Romain Grosjean: "We did a good job today throughout qualifying but on my last lap I made a mistake into turn one, so I decided to back off and save the tyres. Otherwise, I think we could have done a bit better and maybe sit one or two rows further towards the front. I was happy with the car and all the work we've done since Friday. For tomorrow, we will see what happens as the competition is very tight. As we have seen, conditions are variable this weekend and once more the tyres should be key."
Fernando Alonso: "It's a well known fact that Saturday afternoon is our weak point and fifth place is more or less what we were expecting. We were well aware that Red Bull and Mercedes would both be very strong, but while it's true we have to start taking back points on Vettel, we are not too scared of Mercedes, who usually have higher tyre degradation. The team and I are optimistic for tomorrow as our race pace isg ood and usually we manage to go better on Sunday. We start from the clean side and hope that will allow us to get off the line well, because what we need here is to make up some places at the start and then put in a few clean laps in the early stages or at half distance. We will also have to defend against Raikkonen: so far he has gone very well in the races and the Lotus doesn't seem to suffer too much on the tyre front. As usual this season it will be very important to choose the right strategy, because there is only one lap difference in terms of degradation between the two tyre compounds."
Felipe Massa: "I can't say I'm pleased with this result, because I was expecting more after the times I did this morning. Unfortunately, in the third sector I had slight understeer which was costing me time, but all the same, I feel very confident because our car seems competitive. Now we must concentrate on tomorrow's race, because it will be a long one and anything can happen. As for the Stewards' decision relating to what happened with Webber in Q2, it was not my intention to get in his way and in all honesty, I can't recall having affected his qualifying. When I saw him in the mirrors, I thought I'd get through the corner before letting him by, which was the only course of action at such a narrow point. On top of that, he was on worn tyres at the time and I don't think he was doing a quick lap. I'm not surprised at the pace of the Mercedes, as they were already strong here in winter testing and their car is always very competitive in qualifying. This result shows once again that, on Saturdays, our rivals prefer to take a more conservative approach in the morning before revealing their true potential in the afternoon."
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