March 24, 2012
On this date 150 years ago, the emancipation issue continued to be fraught with emotion. In Cincinnati, Ohio, the abolitionist Wendell Phillips spoke and was greeted with a barrage of eggs and rocks. Lincoln, commenting on the prospect of compensated emancipation, noted in a letter to newspaperman Horace Greeley that "we should urge it persuasively, and not menacingly, upon the South."