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... EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION BEFORE THE CABINET From L. to R. the persons seated are Stanton ( War ) , the President , Welles ( Navy ) , Seward ( State ) , Bates ( Attorney - General ) ; from L. to R. the persons standing are Chase ...
... EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION BEFORE THE CABINET From L. to R. the persons seated are Stanton ( War ) , the President , Welles ( Navy ) , Seward ( State ) , Bates ( Attorney - General ) ; from L. to R. the persons standing are Chase ...
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... Emancipation . March 6 , 1862 Message to Congress on Passage of Act to Abolish Slavery in District of Columbia . April 16 , 1862 Proclamation Revoking General Hunter's Order of Military Emancipation . May 19 , 1862 Message to Congress ...
... Emancipation . March 6 , 1862 Message to Congress on Passage of Act to Abolish Slavery in District of Columbia . April 16 , 1862 Proclamation Revoking General Hunter's Order of Military Emancipation . May 19 , 1862 Message to Congress ...
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Abraham Lincoln Marion Mills Miller. Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation . Sep- tember 22 , 1862 Final Emancipation Proclamation . January 1 , 1863 Message to Congress on Freedmen's Aid So- cieties . December 17 , 1863 Order to Bring ...
Abraham Lincoln Marion Mills Miller. Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation . Sep- tember 22 , 1862 Final Emancipation Proclamation . January 1 , 1863 Message to Congress on Freedmen's Aid So- cieties . December 17 , 1863 Order to Bring ...
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... emancipation of the negro has been forced upon us by circumstances and accepted as a ne- cessity . We are very far from denying this ; nay , we admit that it is so far true that we were slow to renounce our constitutional obligations ...
... emancipation of the negro has been forced upon us by circumstances and accepted as a ne- cessity . We are very far from denying this ; nay , we admit that it is so far true that we were slow to renounce our constitutional obligations ...
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... emancipation that it was opposed even to war . Mr. Lincoln had not been chosen as gen- eral agent of an anti - slavery society , but Presi- dent of the United States , to perform certain functions exactly defined by law . Whatever were ...
... emancipation that it was opposed even to war . Mr. Lincoln had not been chosen as gen- eral agent of an anti - slavery society , but Presi- dent of the United States , to perform certain functions exactly defined by law . Whatever were ...
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Page 81 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
Page 173 - Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 220 - I, , do solemnly swear, in presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and the union of the States thereunder ; and that I will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all acts of Congress passed during the existing rebellion with reference to slaves, so long and so far as not repealed, modified, or held void by Congress, or by decision of the Supreme Court ; and that I will, in like manner.
Page xlvi - And some innative weakness there must be In him who condescends to victory Such as the Present gives, and cannot wait, Safe in himself as in a fate.
Page 144 - An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following : SEC.
Page 146 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion...
Page 69 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all, or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution...
Page 144 - States, or who shall in any way give aid or comfort thereto, escaping from such persons and taking refuge within the lines of the army; and all slaves captured from such persons or deserted by them, and coming under the control of the Government of the United States...
Page 146 - ... the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit: "Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St.
Page 232 - Any proposition which embraces the restoration of peace, the integrity of the whole Union, and the abandonment of slavery...