Tribune Editorial: Utah should ratify the Equal Rights Amendment

The Civil War was all but won. A war that had begun over the matter of whether the United States was divisible or not had become a moral crusade to end slavery once and for all. The anti-slavery Union was about to prevail over the pro-slavery Confederacy.The Emancipation Proclamation was more than two years old.So why, in 1865, was Abraham Lincoln employing all the powers of his office and his considerable skills of political persuasion in an attempt to pass and ratify the 13th Amendment to the