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Sixteen months into the War Karl Marx—as if anticipating apologists like Brooks 160 years later—criticized Lincoln for “trying to conduct it along constitutional” lines. “I think,” he contended, “that wars of this kind ought to be conducted along revolutionary lines.” It pleased him to no end, then, when Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation more than a month later. The Executive Order abolishing slavery was, in Marx’s opinion, “tantamount to the tearing up of the old American Constitution.” Depriving the slave owners of their slaves was one of the biggest property expropriations in history and a clear violation of the Fifth Amendment’s prohibition of such confiscations without “due process” and “just compensation”; and why Lincoln could say with justification later that year in Gettysburg that the country now had “a new birth of freedom.”
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