Documenting United States History

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the money of fools.” For a man to be an Abolitionist in the United States seems at

once to convert him into a knave and a robber.

“President Lincoln and His Scheme of Emancipation,” Charleston Mercury, December 11,

1862, Accessible Archives: The Civil War Collection.

pRaCTICIng historical Thinking

Identify: What is significant about the year 1900 to this newspaper? Is this year

mentioned in the Emancipation Proclamation? Use your notes and textbook to

help you.

Analyze: What does the writer mean when he states: “Yet Abolitionism teaches

a man that there is a higher law than the Constitution of the country, or the Bible

itself”? Why would a Southern slave owner reject this notion?

Evaluate: Synthesize the first four documents of this chapter to form a statement

on the ways that newspapers in this era tried to shape public opinion.

document 12.5 ThoMAS nAST, “The Emancipation of

the negroes, January, 1863—The Past

and the Future,” Harper’s Weekly

1863

The following image appeared in the Northern periodical Harper’s Weekly on January 24,

1863, to celebrate the Emancipation Proclamation.

Library of Congress

prints and

photographs

division, LC-USZ62-130778.

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