Subject:  Some more tidbits. Hahaha!! |
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Date Posted: 11:56:33 05/21/01 Mon
I was going to tell you about how, under Lincoln, around 300 newspapers got shut down.
Here are some of them:
Chicago Daily Times
The Journal of Commerce (New York)
Morning News (New York)
The Day-Book
The New York World
The Freeman's Journal (New York)
Philadelphia Evening Journal
Christian Observer
Republican Watchman (PA)
Journal
Missourian
Herald (MO)
Democrat (Concord, NH)
Those are just some of them. The publisher of the the Journal of Commerce stood up against a mob attack, but he was forced to sell the paper when the goverment ordered the post office to refuse to mail the paper.
The rest were all shut down under goverment orders, or organized mob attacks. (Some of these papers were later started, under different, more "favorable" editors)
Sad, isn't it?
This will have to wait for another time, but I would also like to get into slavery, and what effect that had on the war. (None.)
In fact, I just read that in Missouri General Fremont emancipated the slaves in his theater of operations. Fremont ordered any civilian found with arms to be tried by a military tribunal and shot. Lincoln HAD TO CANCEL BOTH ORDERS AND RETURN THE SLAVES TO THEIR MASTERS.
Later, in May 1862, Gen. David Hunter attempted another emancipation of slaves in the states of Georgia, Florida, and S. Carolina. Lincoln forbade it.
The Emancipation Proclamation was a war measure. It was meant for the South, to stir up trouble their.
"I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."
--Abraham Lincoln.
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