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The Republican Party Freed The Slaves
On this day in 1862, the Republican-controlled 37th Congress enacted, despite unanimous Democrat opposition, the second Confiscation Act. This law, written by Senator Lyman Trumbull (R-IL), declared that all slaves held by Confederate rebels shall be forever free. President Abraham Lincoln (R-IL) would cite this law in the provisional Emancipation Proclamation two months later.
The Republican Party Freed The Slaves | TexasSparkle | a Chron.com blog
the irony of a stormfronter who would have been fighting for the "freedom" to own slaves taking credit for that is not lost on me.