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Today in History (1862) - The U.S. government forbids all Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation. On the same day in 1865, the Confederate Congress voted to enlist 300,000 black troops, granting them freedom with the consent of their owners. Lee surrendered a few weeks later. |
Also in local religion-crime news, an East Texas man claimed in his confession to investigators that demonic possession caused him to molest his step-daughters.
The possession had occurred after Upshaw had prayed over and laid hands on a sexual deviant who was possessed, he said. Because he was not "prayed up" at the time, the demons transferred into his body, causing him to lust after his wife's elementary- and middle school-aged daughters.