
The New Editor:
145 years ago on this date in 1865, slavery was abolished in the US with the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution.
A former fetus, the “wordsmith from nantucket” was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1968. Adopted at birth, wordsmith grew up a military brat. He achieved his B.A. in English from the University of California, Los Angeles (graduating in the top 97% of his class), where he also competed rings for the UCLA mens gymnastics team. The events of 9/11 woke him from his political slumber and malaise. Currently a personal trainer and gymnastics coach.
The wordsmith has never been to Nantucket.
anybody know without looking it up what the proportions of Republicans to Democrats to others was in the drafting, passage and ratificatio9n of that amendment were.
Full disclosure–I don’t although I have strong suspicions.
If a discussion develops and authoritative opinions aree
given, I’ll ‘fess up. In fact I’ll see if I can write-but-not publish what I think on my blog, and I’ll publish it if that seems like an interesting thing to do.
http://13thamendment.harpweek.com/hubpages/CommentaryPage.asp?Commentary=05ProposalPassage
There was a shortage of Democrats in Congress due to absence of ones that represented seceded states.
Thank you Mr. Sherman.
It was more complicated than I remembered (or knew–not sure which).
I’m also not sure where that leaves me–what I wrote at http://lwolt.wordpress.com/2010/12/19/republicans-vs…t-was-ratified/ awhile ago was:
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It is 2037 Central, 18 December, 2010.
I think there was a Republican President sitting during much (if not all) of the time.
I think the US Congress was Republican (or Republican and not-Democrat) controlled.
I think many of the Governors were Republican ort[sic] not Democrat.
I think the state legislatures were predominantly Republan[sic].
The point being, the Democrats were against it and failed to stop it because of inadequate numbers.
It is 2042 Central, 18 December, 2010.
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I can only claim only partial credit for the “not-Democrat” group–some were for and some were agin.
And I don’t know where to to put groups like the War Democrats.
But thanks again–my workload for tomorrow is now lighter.