Wonder if anyone ever checked out the citys and areas to see wha else was recorded. Something like that you think there would be more?

Sorry to repost. Besides could it of been that he was looking at the fact that : untill this time the war was over freedom, turning it into a war about slaves helped insure that neither Englang or France would give aid to the south.

Didn't it just free the slaves in rebelous areas of the south. Not all slaves were free untill the 13th. admendment. I don't think that slaves in the border states were freed. Also I belive that ir read something as to “the states rebelous against the Union”. So I think in his eyes these states were rebelous, yet still part of the Country.