McIntosh Park, located in one of the cities of S.W. Ohio, USA, today is the site of festivities and a modest sized carnival. The park is in a part of town where the population majority is are Americans of African ancestry.

The occasion for today’s weekend festivities does memorialize a national historical occasion worthy of recalling. Specifically, during the 1860,s Abraham Lincoln, USA president, signed the emancipation proclamation. It stated that humans held as slaves in the southern states could now go free; military and forces of the north, would assist them them realizing that stratus.

The time was that of war between the states of N. America, a rather tragic and destructive affair The loosing side suffered the death of 1 out of 4 of its male people between the ages of 10 and 65.

In the period afterward, the victorious north passed and ratified a related constitutional amendment. It stated that it was no longer lawful in this nation for humans, except in punishment for crime, to be held in bondage or as property.

There is a need to not be let the joy overcome vigilance, though, unlike the statement of one lady there using the public address system.

“Free Now – – once and forever”, she said.

We need, though, to be continually on guard,not to be again overtaken, by threats to liberty for all persons.

Sincerely,
awm