The date of the latest federal holiday, June 19th, was touted as the one marking the end of slavery in America. While few today would argue with the idea of honoring emancipation, the selection of that date in 1865 leaves much to be desired. If one truly wanted to commemorate the legal end of American slavery, the date for such a memorial should have been December 6th . . . the day in 1865 when the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution was finally ratified and actually accomplished full and legal emancipation.
June 19th is merely the day in 1865 when Union troops under the command of Major General Gordon Granger landed in Galveston, Texas, a little over a week after Confederate Major General Kirby Smith effectively ended the War by surrendering the Army of the Trans-Mississippi. After General Gordon’s arrival, he immediately issued General Order Number Three which proclaimed that the slaves in Galveston were now free. As the Thirteenth Amendment had not yet been ratified, the general had no legal authority to issue such an order other than basing it on Lincoln’s two-year old Emancipation Proclamation.
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Depends on which 13th Amendment you refer. The REAL, original
ReplyDelete13th Amendment was properly ratified and that is the legitimate
one. The fraud replacement, I have no interest.
the onset of the Civil War interrupted the states’ ratification of the amendment. Had it been ratified, however, the Corwin Amendment would have become the 13th Amendment, forever protecting slavery instead of abolishing it.
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The original 13th Amendment is still the law of the land
Deleteas it was never repealed and it was properly ratified.
More of their criminal activity.
http://www.amendment-13.org/index.html
I thought you were talking about the Corwin Amendment.
DeleteOh, the Corwin Amendment - will it's still hanging around
ReplyDeletesomewhere waiting to be enforced:
https://dixieoutfitters.com/2015/04/04/corwin-amendment/
The requisite number of states didn't sign on.
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