The Emancipation Proclamation, the Thirteenth Amendment, and Juneteenth

There is a lot of confusion about the Emancipation Proclamation and Juneteenth. The Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863 did not free a single slave because it only applied to the Confederacy, which had seceded from the Union. There were still slaves in Maryland in spite of the Emancipation Proclamation! It was the Thirteenth Amendment which really abolished slavery. However, the Amendment did not apply to the  enslaved persons of the Confederacy until after the Civil War had ended. Juneteenth was when the slaves in Texas first heard that they were free, in June 1865, after the end of the war.  From Undivided Nation:

How many slaves did the Emancipation Proclamation free? Experts say that there were around four million slaves in the U.S. in the 1860’s. So maybe it freed half of them? Not close. The Emancipation Proclamation actually freed ZERO slaves.

I am no historian, but after a good deal of reading President Lincoln’s own words on slavery and the issue of race in America, I think the Emancipation Proclamation was more about preserving the Union and winning the war than it was a heartfelt desire for justice and racial equality in America. Here are some of the “Great Emancipator’s” own words.

In the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates for Illinois’ U.S. Senate seat in 1858, Lincoln stated his view of white supremacy: “I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. (Source)

At the time of Lincoln’s inauguration to the Presidency on March 4, 1861, the United States was being torn apart. Jefferson Davis had been inaugurated as the President of the Confederate States of America just two weeks earlier in Montgomery, Alabama. In Lincoln’s inaugural address, he spoke to many in the newly formed Confederate States saying, “I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.” (Source)

In August 1862, 16 months into the Civil War, New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley published an editorial calling on President Abraham Lincoln to declare emancipation for all slaves in Union-held territories. With a preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation having already been presented to his cabinet, Lincoln wrote to Mr. Greeley, “My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union.” (Source)

I have come to the conclusion that the Emancipation Proclamation was a shrewd wartime move by a President whose purpose was to preserve the Union above all. The “Great Emancipator” was more of a great messenger and used the proclamation to define the war as a conflict over slavery and made emancipation an official part of the North’s military strategy. (Read more.)

What is Juneteenth? From History:

Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed. The troops’ arrival came a full two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth honors the end to slavery in the United States and is considered the longest-running African American holiday. On June 17, 2021, it officially became a federal holiday. 

Confederate General Robert E. Lee had surrendered at Appomattox Court House two months earlier in Virginia, but slavery had remained relatively unaffected in Texas—until U.S. General Gordon Granger stood on Texas soil and read General Orders No. 3: “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.” (Read more.)

Part of the reason I have some basic awareness of such things is because I grew up in Frederick, Maryland, the hometown of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney of the dreadful Dred Scott Decision. Taney's statue was in Frederick and so was his house, both of which we visited on public school field trips. Taney's grave was in the Catholic cemetery of Saint John the Evangelist Church, not far from the grave of one of Marie-Antoinette's judges. So as a child I had to learn about the Civil War and slavery whether I wanted to or not. It was all around me. Sadly, erasing history makes for ignorant people.

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"Pride Month" in Talbot County

 Pride Month is oozing by as parents struggle to protect their children from the vulgar and obscene public displays promoting adult sexual behavior intended to destroy innocence and awaken confusion. In Easton on a city block there are displayed “Pride Flags” which also promote the transgender agenda, an agenda which many doctors and psychologists have said is detrimental to the physical and mental health of children. Women representing the Talbot County Free Library offered books aimed at “teens and tweens” promoting the homosexual lifestyle at the taxpayers’ expense.

The Delmarva Pride Center has hosted a series of drag queen and other gay events hosted by many Talbot County businesses and institutions such as the Academy Art Museum, the Adkins Arboretum, the Avalon Theater, the Dorchester County Health Department, the YMCA, The Hummingbird Inn, Mid-Shore Behavioral Health, Shore United Bank and many others. Many of the above institutions receive tax payer funds to promote behavior which violates the moral consciences of many citizens of Talbot County.

On June 16, 2024 in an op-ed in The Star Democrat, Mr. Rudy Reyes accused the Republican Party of promoting "fear of persecution" against the LGBTQ community, particularly in connection with a meeting of the Easton Town Council on June 3, 2024. While registered Republicans and members of the Talbot County Republican Central Committee may have attended that meeting, they attended as concerned citizens on their own behalf, not as representatives of the GOP. As for the Council members themselves, Mr. Frank Gunsallus is not a Republican. Mr. David Montgomery is, but like the other Town Council members, he spoke on his own behalf, not on behalf of the Republican party. While individual members, myself included, may wholeheartedly agree with Mr. Montgomery, he was not in that instance representing the GOP.

To be clear, the Republican Party, the party of Lincoln, does not endorse "persecution" of anyone. At any rate, after reviewing the video, I fail in this case to see how the words of either Mr. Gunsallus or Mr. Montgomery rose to the level of "persecution." If someone does not choose to celebrate or promote the LGBTQ agenda, it does not signify persecution. It may mean, however, that many people have come to view the LGBTQ community as a political movement which heavily identifies with the far left of the Democrat party. That is where the words "socialism" and "ideology" come in. And we Republicans are as free to disagree with you Democrats on your ideologies as you are free to disagree with us. For instance, a Democrat might disagree with me about the human rights of an unborn child, but that does not mean I am being persecuted.

As for traditional holidays being about "feelings" let us be clear that Christmas is about the birthday of Jesus Christ, not feelings. St. Patrick's Day is about a man who preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ under brutal circumstances. On July 4, 1776 our founders were putting their lives in danger for their country. Most of our holidays are about sacrifice for the sake of God or country. Not feelings.

What I am wondering about is how drag queens came to epitomize the LGBTQ movement. I noticed on the Delmarva Pride Festival schedule that 5 drag queens are named as hosts. To many people drag is seen as mockery of women and degrading to femininity. Maybe women should feel persecuted.

Below is Mr. Montgomery's appeal to sanity and common sense at the Easton Town Council on June 3, 2024, for which he is being accused of bigotry. I applaud Mr. Gunsallus on the Easton Town Council for choosing to focus public funds on building a climate for prosperous businesses rather than spending money on ideological causes. Unfortunately, he is being accused of having hatred in his heart for certain causes and proclivities. But "hate" is a serious accusation and should not automatically be assumed to be playing a part in the decision-making. I agree with Mr. David Montgomery and am glad he spoke out.

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The March To Globalism Continues

 From The Easton Gazette:

The United Nations is actively navigating the river to one-world-governance, aka Globalism. While we, in these United States, take a breath on what we were sold as a “win” against the World Health Organization’s plans to implement their draconian “Pandemic Treaty” which is not a treaty at all (more on that in later articles) it comes to light that the United Nations has introduced what is called “Our Common Agenda”.

Is our common agenda one focused on empowering the individual on a global scale? Is it an agenda to create a stronger team of U.N. member countries? Is it designed to lift up the world’s poor populations currently being oppressed by their governments or ruthless gangs? Upon perusal of “Our Common Agenda” I can, with confidence, state emphatically "NO" to all those questions.

On the opening page titled ”A Wake-up call”, after the expected aggrandizing of the organization, a list titled “The Cost Of Covid-19” is listed. This list includes such claims as

• “The pandemic-induced poverty surge will also widen the gender poverty gap, meaning more women will be pushed into extreme poverty than men.”
• “Nearly one in three people in the world (2.37 billion) did not have access to adequate food in 2020 – an increase of almost 320 million people in just one year”
• “Early estimates suggest a potential increase of up to 45 per cent in child mortality because of health-service shortfalls and reductions in access to food.”
• “Total working hours fell by 8.8 per cent in 2020, the equivalent of 255 million full time jobs.”
• “Restricted movement, social isolation and economic insecurity are increasing women’s vulnerability to violence in the home around the world.”

Challenges presented by C-19 are declared, such as;  shared vulnerability, inequalities in societies, disenchantment with institutions and political leadership, vaccine nationalism. (Read more.)

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The History of Maryland’s Lost City

 In Montgomery County. So much of that county is lost. From The Mocoshow:

The now-lost city of Triadelphia (“three brothers”) was founded in 1809 by brothers-in-law Thomas Moore, Isaac Briggs, and Caleb Bentley. The brothers were married to the Brooke sisters, who were descendents of Robert Brooke– the founder of Brookeville in Montgomery County. 

“Born of the Patuxent River and then destroyed by it, the mill town Triadelphia knew years of glory as a leading Maryland industrial center.” – Sandy Spring Museum. Today the Patuxent River marks the NE border of MoCo, but between 1809 and the civil war it powered the mills that made Triadelphia a thriving industrial community. At the time, it was even larger nearby Rockville. (Read more.)

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LGBT Takeover of Civil Rights

 From The Christian Post:

Pastor Voddie T. Baucham recently spoke to The Christian Post about his new book, It's Not Like Being Black: How Sexual Activists Hijacked the Civil Rights Movement, which was published last week and delves into what he described as the attempt by sexual activists to subvert the civil rights movement to promote immorality. Baucham also warned that many American churches are going to have to "pay a price" for standing up for biblical sexual ethics during a time when the state is increasingly mandating against them.

 Baucham, whose book traces some of the key ideas and figures responsible for the LGBT movement, told CP that the idea for writing it had been percolating in his mind for more than 15 years. He especially remembers the media campaign that attempted in vain to convince California voters to legalize same-sex marriage by voting against Proposition 8 in 2008. (Read more.)

 

A unifying theory of sexual revolutions from Bethel McGrew at Further Up:

George was sort of an important guy though, a loud and active participant in America’s mid-century censorship wars. He eloquently put his case that if this country was going to become sane, it had to get over itself and its neurotic repression of all things sexual. Let a million flowers bloom, he cried. That is, as long as the flowers were “natural” and not “perverse.” There, George drew a bright line.

George did in fact have a long-running research relationship with the iconic Alfred Kinsey, who became famous for his groundbreaking work on homosexuality. Kinsey drew on extensive field work George had done in New York’s gay scene, including the prostitution scene. But in George’s mind, there was a separation between simply observing gay culture and taking serious steps to normalize it in the broader culture. His partnership with Kinsey soured largely because he came to believe Kinsey was pursuing the latter (and suspected Kinsey himself was more than a little “personally invested” in the whole business). Homosexuals should be tolerated, George supposed, to a point. But to normalize homosexuality was to normalize the “perverse” impulse that threatened to, so to speak, unman George’s sexual revolution. He especially loathed and suspected the “elite gays” insinuating themselves into the highest ranks of publishing, fashion, and other culture-making institutions. If they had their way, he believed they were going to launch a culture-wide subversion of heterosexuality, perhaps even turning straight men into “pseudo-homos.” And he wasn’t alone. His frank private correspondence with Marshall McLuhan shows that McLuhan thought along very similar lines.

You might have thought George would uncritically celebrate all things 60s, but you’d be wrong. He celebrated free love in the sense that he celebrated his male fanboys achieving peak satisfaction with their girlfriends (bullying the girls along if the boys were struggling to persuade them). But he didn’t like the way certain other flowers of the free love revolution were smelling. He was a simple revolutionary, was George. He was a Lady Chatterley’s Lover guy, not a Marquis de Sade guy. He didn’t want violent porn. He just wanted porn. He was disgusted by drugged-out orgies, freaky fashions, tattooed teats. Where was all this weird stuff coming from, and where was it all going? Yes, of course George wanted a sexual revolution, but not like that. (Read more.)

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What Frederick Douglass Learned From The Irish

 From The Conversation:

Though Frederick Douglass remains the most well-known abolitionist to visit Ireland in the decades prior to the American Civil War, he was not the only one. As many as 30 Black abolitionists and activists also traveled to Ireland between 1790 and 1860. Olaudah Equiano was one of them. Born in Africa, Equiano was kidnapped when he was about 10 years old. But he later purchased his own freedom, wrote a bestselling autobiography and arrived in Ireland in 1791 as a guest of the United Irishmen, a group of radical nationalists.

Another was Sarah Parker Remond, who came to Ireland in 1859 and stayed with the same family who had hosted Douglass 14 years earlier. Having for the first time experienced equality, she could not bear to return to America. Instead, she completed a degree at a college in London and moved to Italy, where she trained as a medical doctor. Both Equiano and Parker Remond worked closely with Irish abolitionists.

Even before Douglass arrived in Ireland in 1845, he was aware of the rich tradition of Irish men and women involved in the transatlantic movement to bring an end to the U.S. system of enslavement. In particular, he was an admirer of the Irish nationalist leader Daniel O’Connell. A vocal critic of enslavement, O'Connell had played an important role in bringing it to an end in the British Empire in 1833. 

Born into enslavement in Maryland in 1818, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey met his enslaved mother only a handful of times before she died. It was generally assumed that his father was the white owner of the plantation. At the age of 20, Frederick escaped to New York, where he changed his surname to Douglass. (Read more.)

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Inside Radbourne Hall

 

From House and Garden:

Lady Chichester has fond memories of sitting on John Fowler’s knee as a child. This is perhaps a rather different sort of memory to those who worked for or along-side this extraordinarily talented and influential, yet notoriously irascible and demanding decorator. In 1957, her parents, Major and Mrs John Chandos-Pole, commissioned Fowler to work on the interiors at 18th-century Radbourne Hall, her family house in Derbyshire, and today they are a rare surviving example of an almost complete John Fowler scheme. Annie’s mother Jill lived in the house until she died, aged 102, going to great lengths to preserve Fowler’s interiors. Shutters were kept closed and plastic covers made for upholstery and curtains.

Although Annie admits she found her mother’s fastidiousness very boring to live with as a child, she is now the grateful beneficiary of an extraordinary legacy. When she and her husband, Sir James Chichester, took over the house in 2014, the ceiling of the central hall was sagging alarmingly and the roof required attention, as did the plumbing and wiring. The house also needed to be updated in order to work better for 21st-century living with the addition of a family kitchen and more bathrooms. Despite this, Annie was absolutely committed to restoring Fowler’s work. (Read more.)

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Weaponized Biotechnology

 From The American Classroom:

The following text comes directly from The Alliance League Matching Service, here- (https://almscodex.org/health-research-topics).

Included below is a list of the proof (with links), that our government and multiple associated industries and countries around the world have been weaponizing biology and technology, against the human race for decades.

This is undeniable.

This list also has the endorsement of Sabrina Wallace, as she recently covered the almscodex.org website and list/references below within a recent episode on her channel, which can be watched HERE.

My recommendation is that you copy and paste the text below for your own records. If anyone you know has any questions about this subject and what our government has been doing to us and everyone throughout the world for decades, this list should suffice as the answer.

Some of the links have been deleted by now, and some others may not load at all. I did, however, include screen-shots of the headlines of the articles that are still available, just to prove that they did at one time exist, or still do exist. I also made this list more digestible from a visual standpoint only, than the original list on the almscodex.org website. I have deleted nothing. All of the website’s original content is below. (Read more.)

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A New Novel Featuring Marie-Antoinette

 From Aleteia:

To Crown with Liberty follows the life of a fictional character named Alix de Morainville Carpentier, a noblewoman born in northern France who, after her society debut at Versailles, becomes lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution. Forced to flee as a result of the violence of the Terror, Alix ends up in Louisiana, no longer and aristocrat but now the wife of her former gardener and attempting to make a life among French settlers in the new world.

Alix struggles to make peace with her past, including the choices she had to make in order to escape France. Her personal story takes place in the wider context of humanity’s search for political freedom, human fraternity, and the role of spirituality in promoting human happiness. Alix must come to peace with her past in order to be free for a happy future. Cultures and nations must do the same. Revolutions that reject the entire history and traditions of a nation don’t end well. (Read more.)

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