The $60,000 Telegram That Helped Abraham Lincoln Abolish Slavery https://time.com/5832758/abraham-lincoln-slavery-telegram/ Ainissa Ramirez (MIT Press Reader) has a story in today’s TIME magazine, about a chapter during Lincoln’s presidency that I was not aware of. == The “new technology” of the telegraph (1844, first telegraph message), transmitted the state’s new constitution so that Nevada could be admitted as a US. State. Those 40 single-spaced pages of text (electronic constitution) cost $4,303.27 ($60,000 today). Lincoln signed Nevada’s admittance as a state on October 30, 1864. Nevada participated in the 1864 Federal Election and its single Representative in the US House voted for the 13th Amendment on January 31, 1865. Steven Spielberg’s film Lincoln focuses on this time period (late 1964-April 1965) in his presidency, it is unfortunate that this story, from that period, was omitted.
The Spielberg film has a rather narrow focus. That aside it was very well done and Daniel Day-Lewis did a great job, as expected. There is a scene with Lincoln in what appears to be a telegraph room with a couple of operators.
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One important fact: The telegraph system was nationalized by the Federal government during the civil war.
Do you recognize the actor, playing telegraph and cipher officer Samuel Beckwith on the Right in photo? The character was based on the memoirs of Washington cipher officer David Homer Bates. Adam Driver https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Driver
It is fascinating to me how historical happenings take on a life of their own... Lincoln wrote the 'Emancipation Proclamation,' which was an Executive Order that freed ONLY the slaves of the rebelling states. The proclamation did not free ALL slaves and neither did Lincoln. The 13th Amendment freed all the slaves and it was not written by Lincoln. The Emancipation Proclamation was Lincoln's 'Nuclear Option' and was meant to strike a blow to the South's ability to wage war - not to end slavery. Actually, the last state (Kentuckey) did not ratify the 13th amendment until 1976 and slavery, to this day, is still legal in the U.S. Dan WQ4G
