Re: Billy Watkins letter from CL
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Lincoln waited to issue the Emancipation Proclamation because the Union Army wasn't in a strong position militarily. He was concerned it would be viewed as an act of desperation. That's why he waited until after Antietam. You only have to read Mississippi's secession petition to know what the war was about. People talk about state's rights, but the fight was obviously over whether State's had the right to slaveholder states or not. I too am proud to be from the south, and while the flag doesn't offend me personally the groups that use it to promote their agendas do offend me. As I've mentioned before, I will argue for anyone's right to display it as they wish, but I do not think it needs to be a part of Mississippi's State flag.
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