was a dramac setback for US pork producon, which has been steadily. increasing in recent years. Excellent proï¬ts in 2014 and corn prices in the. $4 range are expected to further bolster hog numbers in 2015 and 2016.
The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863.In a single stroke, it changed the federal legal status of more than 3 million enslaved persons in the designated areas of the South from slave to free..gainst the background of the American Civil War, however, Lincoln issued the Proclamation under his authority as  Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy under Article II, section 2 of the United States Constitution.
In 1957 and 1959, Republican President Eisenhower proposed civil rights bills to enforce the 15th Amendment, strengthening the rights of African-American to vote. Senate Democrats filibustered the bills and watered them down.