THE HUFFINGTON POST has been a bit slow for me lately. After the deal that averted the US "fiscal cliff," I posted: "Time once again for liberals to present a defeat as a victory..." but I don't feel like saying much about that.
Then last night there was a column about Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which became official 150 years ago at New Year's. I know quite a bit about the Civil War and wrote several posts in that column's forum. I think some people were impressed by my perception.
Here's the longest post I wrote:
When Lincoln originally proposed the Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet in July, 1862, he encountered less resistance than he feared, but one secretary--William Seward?--warned him that he should delay its announcement until after a Union battlefield victory, or he might be seen as grasping at straws.
Lincoln agreed and waited. In a famous letter to a New York newspaper the following month, he said that he'd be willing to save the union by freeing all of the slaves, by freeing none of them, or by freeing some and not others. In fact, this was his way of preparing the public for the Emancipation Proclamation. (Of course, the Emancipation Proclamation freed almost no slaves immediately, but most of them in the long run.)
In September the Confederate invasion of Maryland--a slave state but still Union territory--culminated in the battle of Antietam/Sharpsburg. In terms of casualties, it was a bloody standoff. But it was followed by a Confederate retreat back into Virginia, and the Northern newspapers did their best to present it as a Union victory. (There were also some minor Union victories around that time.) This was close enough for Lincoln's purposes, and he announced the Emancipation Proclamation, which became official at the end of the year.
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When a subject like that comes up and I can write a lot about it, I get so excited I can't sleep!
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