http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/frustrated-abolitionists/ remembering freedom for the slaves ... Tue, 14 May 2013 02:27:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/frustrated-abolitionists/#comment-314 Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:35:30 +0000 http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/?p=1933#comment-314 Donald – Today, the NY Times has a good article by Don H. Doyle on the French-American relationship at the begging of the civil war. Despotism was a common form of government in the 19th century. Lincoln had good reason to be concerned that a government “of the people, by the people, for the people”, could perish from the earth. Eliminating our national sin and keeping our infant republic was a challenge. Think about the fact that we had a government in which the Commander in Chief of the army was an elected official! Not typical in the mid 19th century.

]]> http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/frustrated-abolitionists/#comment-309 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:49:43 +0000 http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/?p=1933#comment-309 It was good that both Congress and events were ahead of Lincoln. He could afford to be the moderate because others were taking the lead. Imagine how it must have felt at Fort Monroe and the soon to be liberated Port Royal…..we’re free…maybe. Also impressive is this massive social change to the military in the field….were they fighting for Union or Freedom. It required some time to make the shift. I do believe that from the United States defeat at Bull Run the die was cast to end slavery…only a very quick war would have stopped the change.

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