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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (440139)	8/8/2003 4:48:12 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The Emancipation Proclamation was hardly welcomed with universal cries of joy in the the North. Desertions from the Union Army rose following it and enlistments dropped. The lower economic classes in the North saw freed slaves as competition and resented the proclamation. That proclamation was one of the grievances that incited rioting in NYC in mid-1863. Those riots were so bad that the Union Army that had fought at Gettyusburg was marched straight from there to NYC to put them down. This is only partially true. We cannot, in discussing this issue, forget about political affinities. The fact is, the Northerners who grumbled against the Union on the slavery issue were largely northern Democrats-- Democrats who identified with southern Democrats.