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To: Jim S who wrote (14388)	1/3/2008 5:17:09 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

The EP didn't even free the slaves in Northern slave states

To: Jim S who wrote (14388)	1/3/2008 7:22:57 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

Jim, I appreciate your comments and understand what you are saying..but can't agree. The South was in insurrection. No major nation recognized the CSA as a separate nation. As you know, the South worked deserately to get Britain and France to recognize it, which they did not do. There have been many insurrections or rebellions in World History, but simply calling yourself a separate Country certainly does not make it so. The United States (the North) never for an instant accepted the rebellious South as a separate nation and until it did so and dropped efforts to put down the rebellion, there was no Nation of the CSA. The EP was done as it was in order to keep Kentucky and Missouri in the Union. It succeeded in that regard. There was no way that slavery in the North was going to survive the insurrection after January 1, 2003. The Thirteenth Amendment was introduced during the war, as I recall, to begin the process of doing so. Issues of compensation, "taking", etc. were all in play.... But the South, in rebellion, had given up its rights and that is where the EP came in....(Isn't executive power wonderful!). P.