Did Confederate president Jefferson Davis make a recording of his voice? I heard somewhere that he did.?
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If he did, I venture to assume he did it before Edison invented sound recording technology.
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<There is no such thing.You probably meant Emancipation Proclamation. Emancipation Proclamation, in U.S. history, the executive order abolishing slavery in the Confederate States of America.\n\nOn Jan. 1, 1863, the formal and definite Emancipation Proclamation was issued. The President, by virtue of his powers as commander in chief, declared free all those slaves residing in territory in rebellion against the federal government as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion. Congress, in effect, had done as much in its confiscation acts of Aug., 1861, and July, 1862, but its legislation did not have the popular appeal of the Emancipation Proclamation—despite the great limitations of the proclamation, which did not affect slaves in those states that had remained loyal to the Union or in territory of the Confederacy that had been reconquered. These were freed in other ways (see slavery). Nor did the proclamation have any immediate effect in the vast area over which the Confederacy retained control. Confederate leaders, however, feared that it would serve as an incitement to insurrection and denounced it.
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Lloyd did.  \n\nhttp://www.jahozafat.com/cgi-bin/wavs.cgi?Dumb_And_Dumber=tag.wav
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I do not beleive the speech is online. Read the Hornbook Magazine, it will have it. Check your public library for a copy.
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try doing a search on the antebellum south I was researching Mississippi and found barbeque postcards which were postcards of a lynching victim and there were links to archived sites that had actual interviews from slaves. former slaves and witnesses during that era maybe you'll be able to locate some archived financial information as well there was also a link to sites that claimed to record accurate not pop culture history, sorry I don't remember the sites I just remember how I got there
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gettysburg address i believe
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No. Abe Lincoln goofed big time. I can't believe some consider him a great president. He should have sought compromises with the South. Sure the South was making a fortune on cotton trading to Europe, thus making the South wealthy, yet Lincoln was stubborned and ended getting us involved in a civil war, that should never have happened.\n\nYet, I agree with you about the lack of Democrats in the south. Once a bastion of democratic thought, now it's all Republicans. What a catastrophe for the Democratic party. It seems the only Democratic president that has a chance of getting elected has to be from the south like Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton.\n\nAs far as the race issue, it's a problem. Yet it could have been straighten out during Lincoln's time by requiring the southern plantation owners to pay for labor and to abolish slavery. That problem should have been worked on long ago instead of getting into a civil war. Nevertheless, the fact that the South was making all that money on cotton was a reason most forget that lead to a civil war.\n\nAnyway, things could change. The south could return to its democratic tendencies. At least I hope so for the sake of this country. By the way, I'm not from the south, I'm from a burb of NYC.
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The Davis Administration in 1861.
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Missed that, where are your sources?\n\nSounds like a speech by a retard may be the source.
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Don't listen to these people...Lincoln was flaming.  We're talking Brokeback gay here.  It's rumored he wrote showtunes while on the toilet and had a beauty salon installed off of the Oval Office.
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Thurgood Marshall\n\nI wanted to edit, since i saw someone gave you misinformation.  Here is a link to prove:
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I think he was.  Yea, he was a racist, but so was Lincoln.  He had slaves, but who didnt?  Its easy to judge him now out of context, but he was born and raised in Va since 1807, it was the way of life,so you cant judge him using today's standards.  It takes extraordinary people to go against popular belief, but just because you dont, doesnt make you a bad person.
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Abraham Lincoln, "Second Inaugural Address," 4 March 1865\n\n\nFellow-Countrymen:\n\nAt this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.\n\nOn the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, urgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war--seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came.\n\nOne-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war, while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh." If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."\n\nWith malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting
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The Confederate States of America
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I do not think there was a way to poll slave owners. I would guess perhaps less than 3%.The plantation owners owned the majority and they as well were in politics as always it's who has the money and power, so when the North pushed the slave issue guess who voted for secession?
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DuBois saw Lincoln as a whole being. He appreciated what he did  with the E.P. of 1863, and I think that he hopes that Lincoln believed what he did was right. He also saw ,what to some of the more refined, aristocratic politicians were Lincoln's less appealing qualities.  Perhaps DuBois found this to be  the basis of Lincoln's understanding for the situation of the slave and the need to rectify the situation .Lincoln also realized that if the country was allowed to be driven apart that the truth in United we stand, divided we fall would become only too real. Washington started it, Lincoln held it together and Churchill saved it. Our country and freedom. And yes I am, as my name would suggest from the South.
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I spent an hour trying to find this for you, but with no luck.  I found out that Lincoln visited Bridgeport  in 1860, and  in 2006 President Bush commemorated a plaque at the spot Lincoln gave a speech.  But I could find no mention of Richard Nixon's visit at all.  Sorry.