Lincoln’s
emancipation proclamation was not original and copied Lord Dunmore’s
edict freeing slaves in 1775 Virginia for the purpose of arming slaves
and inciting the murder of colonial Americans. British Vice Admiral Sir
Alexander Cochrane would do the same on April 2, 1814, proclaiming all
slaves freed in order to cripple the American war effort.
Bernhard Thuersam, Chairman
North Carolina War Between the States Sesquicentennial Commission
"The Official Website of the North Carolina WBTS Sesquicentennial"
Blunt Facts Openly Stated and Faced:
“The
Emancipation Proclamation, an incredible act, must be laid wholly to
Lincoln and the small group of fanatical Abolitionists and radicals
whose hatred of the South and of Southern people seems to have known no
bounds. It disgusted the majority of Northern citizens and was out of
favor even with the troops who were fighting Lincoln’s war at the
hearthstones of the South.
It
was characterized in Northern thought as the act of “an absolute,
irresponsible monarch.” Justice Curtis of the United States Supreme
Court, who had dissented in the Dred Scott case, publicly called it an
unconstitutional act issued without legal right by the President. North
and West it was denounced. In a speech against conscription and
arbitrary arrests, Governor Horatio Seymour of New York declared it a
“proposal for the butchery of women and children, for arson and murder,
for lust and rapine.”
Truly
it could not have emanated from a “great” man. Governor Seymour
reminded Lincoln that the war was supposedly being fought solely to
suppress “rebellion,” not to change the social system of the United
States. [President] Jefferson Davis thought: “Our own detestation of
those who have attempted the most execrable measure recorded in the
history of guilty man, is tempered by profound contempt for the impotent
rage it discloses.”
What
Abraham Lincoln stood for, what Jefferson Davis stood for, culminated
in a terrible civil war, an Emancipation, a “Reconstruction,” and three
unconstitutional so-called amendments forced upon the Constitution and
upon the American people along with an exasperating race problem – all
be perversion of the form of government; by dictatorship and armed
might, lawless and utterly ruthless, bringing ruin and desolation to
half the country of that day, initiated by “reformers” and
intermeddlers. These are blunt facts, some never before openly stated
and faced, in our history.”
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