[Magdalen] right to bear arms

[Charles Wohlers]

Which, at that time, meant Maryland, Delaware & Kentucky - the only states 
which hadn't joined the Confederacy, but which did permit slavery (IIRC). It 
also obviously didn't include those parts of the Confederacy not under 
control of Northern armies.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com




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Subject: Re: [Magdalen] right to bear arms

It's also worth noting that Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation did not 
include slaves in the northern states.

Jim Handsfield
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> On Dec 12, 2015, at 1:53 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen 
> <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> In a message dated 12/12/2015 1:33:46 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> houstonklr at gmail.com writes:
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> because they (northerners) had  abandoned it (slavery) and wanted it done
> elsewhere as  well. >>>>>
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> Well, that is the whole matter in a nutshell.
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> The other aspect of this is I don't get the impression that whatever
> slavery was practiced in the USA North was the basis for the entire
> socioeconomic system there as it had become in the South.
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> The southerners were fighting, among other reasons, for the very
> foundation of their culture.  Without slaves, that was a no-go.
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> David Strang.