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Page 133
... Frémont de- clared martial law in Missouri , and ordered the property of secessionists to be confiscated , and their slaves to be declared free men ; but the President deemed it his duty to so modify the order to liberate and confiscate ...
... Frémont de- clared martial law in Missouri , and ordered the property of secessionists to be confiscated , and their slaves to be declared free men ; but the President deemed it his duty to so modify the order to liberate and confiscate ...
Page 134
... Frémont , transcended his powers in issu- ing an emancipation order , the President repudiated it in the following document : - " Whereas there appears in the public prints what purports to be a proclamation of Major - Gen . Hunter , in ...
... Frémont , transcended his powers in issu- ing an emancipation order , the President repudiated it in the following document : - " Whereas there appears in the public prints what purports to be a proclamation of Major - Gen . Hunter , in ...
Page 156
... Frémont had declined to run against him for the presidency ; and says , " The magnificent Bible which the negroes of Washing- ton had just presented him lay upon the table ; and , while we were both examining it , I recited the somewhat ...
... Frémont had declined to run against him for the presidency ; and says , " The magnificent Bible which the negroes of Washing- ton had just presented him lay upon the table ; and , while we were both examining it , I recited the somewhat ...
Page 179
... Frémont attempted military emanci- pation , I forbade it , because I did not then think it an indispensable necessity ; when , a little later , Gen. Cam- eron , then Secretary of War , suggested the arming of the blacks , I then ...
... Frémont attempted military emanci- pation , I forbade it , because I did not then think it an indispensable necessity ; when , a little later , Gen. Cam- eron , then Secretary of War , suggested the arming of the blacks , I then ...
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