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    If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

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    If the Emancipation Proclamation was authentic, you wouldn't have a race problem.

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    If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

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    We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.

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    Freedom is an expensive gift always worth fighting for. Even if it costs us!

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    You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.

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    Frederick Douglass called Republicans the ‘Party of freedom and progress,’ and the first Republican president was Abraham Lincoln, the author of the Emancipation Proclamation. It was the Republicans in Congress who authored the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments giving former slaves citizenship, voting rights, and due process of law. The Democrats on the other hand were the Party of Jim Crow. It was Democrats who defended the rights of slave owners. It was the Republican President Dwight Eisenhower who championed the Civil Rights Act of 1957, but it was Democrats in the Senate who filibustered the bill.

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    Happy belated 4th of July to the Americans July 2, 1776, was meant for. Not the American's; some of whom's ancestors fought for the British against a nation that DIDN'T then, COULDN'T after The Emancipation Proclamation, and still CAN'T seem to recognize our basic human rights.

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    You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals.