Three Changes To The Constitution

On the first day the new Congress sat, December 1st 1862 Abraham Lincoln suggested three amendments to be added to the United States Constitution. The first that all slaves be progressively emancipated through 1900. Secondly that all slaves freed during the Civil War continue to be free. The third change was that the United State would supply the moneys for consensual colonization for the freed slaves.

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Annual Message to Congress -- Concluding Remarks