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[Gordon Fitch]

JKSCHW at aol.com:
... Lincoln was a railroad lawyer--quite a good one--does that 
mean the Emancipation Proclamation was a corporate plot? 

That would certainly be the gist of the famous Punch cartoon
showing Lincoln playing his "ace", and the view of Lincoln
as a proto-Bismarck -- a not totally unreasonable view.

Gordon