 ... blessed memory), rose and moved that the meeting adjourn to the Twelfth Baptist church, of which he was pastor, and soon that church was packed from doors to pulpit, and this meeting did not break up till near the dawn of day. It was one of the most...  The Emancipation Proclamation: January 1, 1863 - Page 3by United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) - 1994 - 14 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Archives - 1993 - 466 pages
...so, they joined in the widespread celebrations on New Year's Day. At Israel Bethel Church, Reverend Henry McNeal Turner went out and secured a copy of...could not enforce the Proclamation, it sent a mighty Ralph Waldo Emerson proclaimed, "Today unbind the captive, " in his reading of the "Boston Hymn." signal... | |
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...near the dawn of day. It was one of the most affecting and thrilling occasions I ever witnessed, and a worthy celebration of the first step on the part...of the nation in its departure from the thraldom of ages. There was evidently no disposition on the part of this meeting to criticise the proclamation;... | |
 | Frederick Douglass, Rayford Whittingham Logan - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 498 pages
...dawn of day. It was one of the most affecting and thrilling occasions I ever witnessed, and a worth) celebration of the first step on the part of the nation in its departure from the thraldom of ages. There was evidently no disposition on the part of this meeting to criticise the proclamation,... | |
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