Valentine’s Day and Frederick Douglass2
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Bill Gray
www.hillsdale.eduFrom:bill.gray@hillsdale.eduTo:shannanpat@yahoo.comWed, Feb 14 at 5:50 PM -
Dear Bill Gray,
I cannot endorse your movement to further enhance the memory of a liar — well-intentioned that his heart may have been. Did YOU know that Frederick Douglas deceived the history records for all days to come?
A little known piece of history is the deception Frederick Douglas performed with Abe Lincoln more than a year and a half after the southern states had begun to withdraw from the union and form a separate nation — in Sept. of 1862 and 15 months after the shooting had already started at Bull Run.
The reason for the secession of the eleven southern states was another “Taxation Without Representation” situation, and there had never yet been any suggestion that the separation of States had been provoked by slavery. It was then that Douglas visited Lincoln at the White House and proposed to the President there had to be a much bigger heartfelt reason for the war — such as the United States of America’s desire to obliterate slavery — in order to organize the masses, brother vs. brother, friend vs. friend, against the Southern Cause.
Lincoln complied, and the following Jan. 1, 1863, he issued his Emancipation Proculation that applied ONLY to the Confederate States of America and NOT to the northern USA where the first slaves were placed and where more slaves actually lived during the war than in the Confederacy. The Proculation had no more lawful power against the CSA than had it been issued against China or Germany or any other foreign nation because the CSA was then an organized separate nation with its own Constitution and laws, which also contained the lawful abolition of slavery within the next decade, incidentally. LOOK IT UP!
It was Frederick Douglas that birthed the ongoing myth that the American Civil War was fought to abolish slavery.