http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2011/10/23/fremont-gets-fired/ remembering freedom for the slaves ... Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:03:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2011/10/23/fremont-gets-fired/#comment-324 Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:59:04 +0000 http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/?p=2015#comment-324 Public opinion is a strange bird. What is unacceptable one moment becomes acceptable the next moment. Even General Hunter’s proclamation the following May met with almost universal disapproval…but the tide was turning. Lincoln felt safe enough to issue his preliminary by September.

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