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Archives for 2013

June 16, 2013 Leave a Comment

Constitutional Basis of the Proclamation

I am naturally antislavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I cannot remember when I did not so think and feel.Continuing Lincoln's

June 15, 2013 Leave a Comment

Lincoln Revises Proclamation

Mr. Lincoln took the various manuscript notes and memoranda which his Cabinet advisers brought him on the 31st of December, and during that afternoon

June 14, 2013 Leave a Comment

Cabinet’s Response to Draft Proclamation

The criticisms submitted by Mr. Chase were quite long and full, and since they suggested the most distinctive divergence from the President's plan . .

June 13, 2013 Leave a Comment

Cabinet Meeting on Draft Proclamation

From the manuscript letters and memoranda we glean more fully the modifications of the amendments proposed by the several members of the

June 12, 2013 Leave a Comment

Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation

This series has nine easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: President’s Message to Congress.IntroductionLincoln’s Emancipation of

June 11, 2013 Leave a Comment

Legacy of the Louisiana Purchase

Today's installment concludes The Louisiana Purchase,our selection from The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Henry S. Randall published in 1858. For

June 10, 2013 Leave a Comment

Agreement About Louisiana Reached

And let us not withhold from the Consul of France the credit which is due him for approaching and approving the proceedings of such a

June 9, 2013 Leave a Comment

Jefferson’s Diplomacy Impresses Napoleon

And let us not withhold from the Consul of France the credit which is due him for approaching and approving the proceedings of such a

June 8, 2013 Leave a Comment

Power Politics and Louisiana

But the question was, in commercial phrase, would the contest “pay”? Was it worth while to wage a war with so distant a power while the marine of

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