OzOne wrote in message ...
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:51:09 -0500, "Vito"
scribbled thusly:

OzOne wrote .
State rights is one thing, freedom of the people is different I think.

Oz, The war was not fought to free slaves as propaganda says .....

Weren't the slaves in Maryland free?

No. Maryland, West Virginia and Missouri (?) kept slaves until the 13th
Amendment was ratified in December 1865, over two years after Lincoln's
proclamation, which came near the end of the war and only applied to rebel
states.