What did the Corwin amendment attempted to do? What is Lincoln’s position on the proposed amendment?

The Corwin Amendment was a proposed amendment to the Constitution passed by Congress and sent to the states for ratification in 1861. Had it been ratified, the Corwin Amendment would have prohibited the federal government from abolishing enslavement in the states where it existed at the time.

a phrase from a poem by ralph waldo emerson about the battle of lexington and concord. emerson's words read, “here once the embattled farmers stood / and fired the shot heard round the world.”

march 8, 1917

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