Territorial Abolition



On this day in eighteen hundred and sixty-two

Abraham Lincoln signed a law making true ...

Abolition throughout the states and territories

Ending slavery once and for all ... it would be



But it would take three more years to end the strife

Before the war's end, with so very much loss of life

And then a few more years afterwards to establish

The remaining states and the creation of that practice



Ending popular sovereignty, which'd been in vogue

Before the secession created quite another road ...

For "free states" were no longer an option at the end

As all of them would be free, as a torn country ...

			 went on the mend 



- Tristram



© Christopher W. Thomas

2:50pm Sat. June 19th, 1999



NB

Popular Sovereignty was the right given some states

incorporated prior to the secession, to choose to be 

- free states - meaning, they could prohibit slavery,

or allow it, at their option. Needless to say, this policy

created much dissension, culminating in Civil War.



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