A Chain of events !

The Emancipation Proclamation

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on

January 1, 1863, 

Excerpt of Assembly bill introduced on February 4, 1863

“An Act to prevent the immigration of negroes and to define the standing of the negro race in the State of New Jersey .”
Provisions included: “(1) that a fine of twenty dollars a day for every day after the first four days be levied on any person harboring any negro who immigrated to New Jersey; (2) that it be a misdemeanor for any person to entice a negro to New Jersey; (3) that every Negro in the state, six months after the passage of the act, be required to procure from the surrogate in the county of his residence a certificate describing his person and his place of birth. Negroes who failed to comply would be deemed non-residents and could neither liver nor work in the state. The certificate would have to be renewed every five years; (4) that a mulatto with one-fourth negro blood would be judged a negro; (5) that marriage between a black and white in another state would bar the couple's entrance into New Jersey . Marriage between blacks and whites in New Jersey would be unlawful and a fine or imprisonment would be imposed on the white party.”
Source: Minutes, 88; Trenton Daily True American , February 5, 1863. Carl E. Hatch, Negro Migration and New Jersey – 1863 , New Jersey History , Volume LXXXVII, Number Four, Whole Number 339, Winter 1969.

Excerpt of Assembly bill passed on March 18, 1863

“. . . that if any negro, mulatto, or quadroon, male or female, who was not a resident of this state before the passage of this act, shall hereafter come into this state and remain therein for ten days or more . . . [he] shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be transported . . . to Liberia, or some island in the West Indies.”
Source: Newark Daily Advertiser , March 20, 1863; Carl E. Hatch, Negro Migration and New Jersey – 1863 , New Jersey History , Volume LXXXVII, Number Four, Whole Number 339, Winter 969.http://sites.bergen.org/ourstory/resources/civilwar/CW_assembly.htm
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Comparison !

This says it all.

I'm getting some good comments / but if you sign them anonymous ,

They will not be posted.

Small Treasures II

More Small Treasures I have Obtained. 

I don't know if this "Patch Knife" is real, counterfeit or a reproduction.

I use it for everything, coffee stirrer, letter opener, and as a knife when I eat food at my computer. An old friend gave it to me, he got it at a gun show.

Another Gun Show Special --

A confederate Throwing Bowie --

This is a new knife.

And you got a better chance of being struck by lightning,

than you do of me throwing this knife and sticking it in the tree.

And a 1925 Stone Mountain Half Dollar -

To find out about this coin click - HERE

Others may not agree, but to me they are all treasure.

Practice, practice, practice ---

 OFFICER GUNFIGHT DEATHS BY DISTANCE YEARS 1854 TO 1979
(NYC)

 DISTANCE OF ENCOUNTER OFFICERS
CONTACT TO 3 FEET 86
3-6 FEET 119
6-15 FEET 24
15-25 FEET 12
AT 125 FEET (SNIPER) 1 
(205) of the officers slain (250) were slain within 6’ of their assailants.

Target shooting is relaxing. (and frustrating)

 I wanna hit the red dot "Every Time"

A Small Treasure.

Over the Years of being involved with Confederate history

I've collected a number of items.

This one is a Confederate "Brown Egg" telegraph insulator.

Confederate Egg - CD 701.6 and U-970 - Virginia Glass Manufacturing Co., Richmond, Virginia

The site of this glass company at the corner of Main and Tyler Streets in Rocketts, Richmond, Virginia, was in earlier years (mid-1850s) referred to as the "Richmond Glass Works". The incorporation of the Virginia Glass Manufacturing Co. took place on February 19, 1858. Jacob Atlee, the proprietor of the works, was very active in the production of various types of bottles and jars. 

( From http://www.cjow.com/archive/article.php?month=9&a=09Insulators%20of%20the%20Confederacy.htm&year=2001)

This one was found just outside Richmond VA.

Who knows what information passed across it ?

I find small items like this to be wonderful treasures.

To find out more about "Brown Egg" insulators go 

HERE or HERE

Both sites have good information.

I'd like to thank my Buddy Eddie Booth, for giving me this treasure.

I'm Lucky to be here !

I've posted this one before, but I found a better copy.

It shows that I'm lucky to be here !

Yep, Great Grand Dad digging up cannon balls during a battle.

Not so silent !

My friend Susan Hathaway went to Charlottsville the other day and spoke to the city council.

you can see her presentation - 

HERE

Great Job Susan !