JANUARY 11, 1863:
The Southern Confederacy
of Atlanta, Georgia, obviously feeling confident of Southern victory in the
war, prints an editorial insisting that the Yankees be made to pay for
"stolen" slaves in whatever peace terms were to be drawn up. As the
editorial points out, remuneration for slaves was part of the peace terms of
the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. What the editorial misses is that
Abraham Lincoln and the Union, having already proposed compensated
Emancipation, have gone beyond the issue.
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