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Re: The Congressional Debate - March 1865

George among your latest list of questions you posted these two:

" Did the final bill approve emancipation of slaves? Yes!!!!
Was the reason for Davis and the CSA leadership for not arming the slaves to protect the institution of slavery? NO!!!! "

1- Did the final bill approve emancipation of slaves? Yes!!!!

Here is what you posted below with your specifc instruction that I read this paragraph:

" The Confederate Army and Davis managed to overcome the opposition by the Virginia legislature and the Confederate Congress to emancipation by adding to army regulations that slaves could fight if they so desired and if their masters submitted a written approbation that the slave could be freed after the war.

Read the last paragraph again please. "

As I explain in detail below, this paragraph shows that the final bill passed by the Congress did NOT approve emancipation of slaves, but that Lee overcame it by ADDING to his oders to the army that donated slaves would have to be emancipated in writing by the owner before the army officers would receive them. None of that was in the final bill at all, it was Lee's way of getting around the bill.

2- Was the reason for Davis and the CSA leadership for not arming the slaves to protect the institution of slavery? NO!!!! "

What was the reason, then, that Davis and the CSA leadership so strongly resisted arming the slaves?

(A resistance I might add that just might have cost them their independence, since, as you noted in your previous post, they acted too late.)

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