- Joined
- Apr 4, 2017
- Location
- Denver, CO
Lincoln gets one, Seward the second and Congress the third.
September 18, 1861: Kentucky ends neutrality. The strategic situation in the west changes drastically and from the point onward the US is the dominant economic and military power. Even if the Confederacy had achieved some type of independence, the US would eventually launch a fully mobilized naval and land war against the Confederacy and succeed.
April 25, 1862: the US Senate ratifies the Lyons/Seward treaty which set up the joint admiralty courts to adjudicate the capture of suspected slave vessels by the British. After that its difficult to see how the British would confront the US because any military confrontation would cause the US to abandon the protocols. Its hard to see the Royal Navy willingly confronting the US navy. By late June of 1863 John Bright could refer to the US as Britain's old ally. That was only a reference to putting the US into the same category as Portugal which had abandoned the slave trade due to British persuasion.
July 17, 1862: Congress passes and Lincoln signs the 2nd Confiscation Act. After that date, a Presidential proclamation was going to follow. If the US Army and Navy were prohibited from returning any enslaved person to an alleged owner, the Fugitive Slave Act was dead. The consequence of secession materialized. The free line was moved south to the Mason/Dixon line, the Ohio River and the Missouri River.
September 18, 1861: Kentucky ends neutrality. The strategic situation in the west changes drastically and from the point onward the US is the dominant economic and military power. Even if the Confederacy had achieved some type of independence, the US would eventually launch a fully mobilized naval and land war against the Confederacy and succeed.
April 25, 1862: the US Senate ratifies the Lyons/Seward treaty which set up the joint admiralty courts to adjudicate the capture of suspected slave vessels by the British. After that its difficult to see how the British would confront the US because any military confrontation would cause the US to abandon the protocols. Its hard to see the Royal Navy willingly confronting the US navy. By late June of 1863 John Bright could refer to the US as Britain's old ally. That was only a reference to putting the US into the same category as Portugal which had abandoned the slave trade due to British persuasion.
July 17, 1862: Congress passes and Lincoln signs the 2nd Confiscation Act. After that date, a Presidential proclamation was going to follow. If the US Army and Navy were prohibited from returning any enslaved person to an alleged owner, the Fugitive Slave Act was dead. The consequence of secession materialized. The free line was moved south to the Mason/Dixon line, the Ohio River and the Missouri River.
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