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Wednesday May 22, 2013
Today in 1863, the United States War Department ordained a specialized bureau for the purpose of the organization of black enlisted troops, The Bureau of Colored Troops.

‘Oh, an Act of Parliament can do anything’, is the reply made to a citizen who questions the legitimacy of some arbitrary State-interference; and the citizen stands paralysed. It does not occur to him to ask the how, and the when, and the whence, of this asserted omnipotence bounded only by physical impossibilities. — Herbert Spencer, The Great Political Superstition 1884

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