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" ... and by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid i do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated states and parts of states are and henceforward shall be free and that the executive government of the united states... "
Union and Anti-slavery Speeches - Page 201
by Charles Daniel Drake - 1864 - 431 pages
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The Annual Register

Edmund Burke - History - 1864 - 776 pages
...and henceforward shall be, FREE, and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. " And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free, to abstain from all violence, unless...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 24

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1865 - 836 pages
...ARE AND HENCEFORTH SHALL BE FREE; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the Military and Naval Authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons." This is obviously not an act of abolition changing the organic law of the States...
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The Works of William H. Seward, Volume 5

William Henry Seward - New York (State) - 1884 - 652 pages
...government of 1 For Proclamation of September, 1SG2, see ante, p. 345. the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in...
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The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 37

Literature - 1889 - 1060 pages
...then, thenceforward, and forever free ; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts...
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Mr. Russell on Bull Run: With a Note, from the Rebellion Record

Sir William Howard Russell - Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861 - 1861 - 1102 pages
...States are, and henceforward shall be free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the Military and Naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons." When I gave my voice for issuing that Proclamation, I understood these words in their...
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General Orders

United States. Army. Department of the Gulf (1862-1865). - New Orleans (La.) - 1862 - 754 pages
...and henceforward shall be free ; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free, to abstain from all violence except in...
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DISCOURSE ON THE ASPECTS OF THE WAR

JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE - 1863 - 920 pages
...authorities th&reoj, will recognize and MAINTAIN the freedom of said persons." [Renewed applause.] Upon this act, which the President declares is " sincerely...believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution—upon military necessity—he invokes the considerate judgment of mankind, and the gracious...
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Acts Passed at the First Session of the 1st Congress - 3d Session of the ...

United States - Law - 1863 - 324 pages
...and henceforward shall be, free; and that the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in...
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The Barbarism of Slavery: Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the Bill for the ...

Charles Sumner - Kansas - 1868 - 208 pages
...sublime edict, he has further announced " that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons." Already an enlightened Commission has been constituted, to consider how these thronging...
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The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, Volume 6

Frank Moore - United States - 1863 - 888 pages
...be then, thenceforth and forever free, and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts...
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