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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (51856)	8/18/1999 10:41:00 PM
From: nihil	of 108807

Lincoln drafted the Emancipation Proclamation in the summer of 1862 and hatted it until the North had a victory to show that its issuance was not a move of desperation. The victory at Antietam in the fall of 62 led to its announcement as a "draft" to become effective on 1/1/63 which it did. It could have had nothing to do with secession because before secession Lincoln did not favor emancipation. Emancipation was taken as a military necessity (according to Lincoln) and was legally justified as a measure to suppress rebellion. The first aggressive act was S.C. firing on Fort Sumter April 12, 1861. Davis had called for 100,000 troops for the Confederacy on March 6 (mobilization -- an aggressive act), and Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers on April 15 to suppress rebellion (in response to the attack on Sumpter). Lincoln proclaimed a blockade on April 19, 1861. Pretty clear that Confederacy started active aggression. The inflamatory rhetoric had always been in ignited in the South. The North had been accommodative and even timidly in the extreme.

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