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Cleveland Morning Leader, 1 December 1864
(ed; 3 inches)
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p.2, col.1
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1640 - L Dec. 1; ed: 2/1 - One immediate result of a Union victory in
Illinois must be the abolition of the black code of that state. Under
the existing laws, free colored men are punished by being sold as
slaves for 12 months, and persons who harbor colored freemen or slaves
are penalized heavily. "We presume this law must now be a dead letter,
but it still disgraces the State and the Legislature should immediately
repeal it. We are about to abolish slavery by amendment to the Con-
stitution, but we must also rid ourselves of the Slave spirit in the
free North." (3)