My Kindred First To Free Slaves

John Fremont was the first to emancipate slaves in America. Lincoln made the blacks in Missouri slaves again.

Steven Speilberg missed the mark in his movie ‘Lincoln’. He could have raised my kindred from the dead, and given new life to a western revolution that Lincoln thwarted.

As folks in the Red States discuss seceeding from the Union, again, it is time to take the Fremonts seriously and use their ideas as the model for a New America. To this end I will promote the Jubilee Savior who was John the Baptist, followed by his disciple, Jesus.

Jon Presco

Lincoln was a staunch advocate of states rights. He felt that the federal government could not require a state to abolish slavery. In fact, on two separate occasions when Major Generals Fremont and Hunter took it upon themselves to emancipate slaves in Union-occupied territories, Lincoln countermanded their orders, insisting that they…