Adam wants to play politics with me and he'll lose everytime. Why? Because my beliefs are based on the Constitution, Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence and the Amendments to the Consitution.
Adams are based on what he believes is right in his mind and that is what every other politician is doing and why our country is in the situation it's in.
You know absolutely VERY LITTLE of American History, let alone the Constitution. You don`t even read any books on the matter.
The Proclamation applied only in ten states that were still in rebellion in 1863, thus it did not cover the nearly 500,000 slaves in the slave-holding border states (Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland or Delaware) which were Union states — those slaves were freed by separate state and federal actions. The state of Tennessee had already mostly returned to Union control, so it was not named and was exempted. Virginia was named, but exemptions were specified for the 48 counties then in the process of forming the new state of West Virginia, seven additional Tidewater[clarification needed] counties individually named, and two cities. Also specifically exempted were New Orleans and 13 named parishes of Louisiana, all of which were also already mostly under Federal control at the time of the Proclamation. These exemptions left unemancipated an additional 300,000 slaves.
While the Proclamation had freed most slaves as a war measure, it had not made slavery illegal. Of the states that were exempted from the Proclamation, Maryland,[9] Missouri,[10] and Tennessee[11] prohibited slavery before the war ended; however, in Kentucky, Delaware,[12] and West Virginia slavery continued to be legal[citation needed] until December 18, 1865, when the Thirteenth Amendment went into effect.
