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My Father's House - Page 124
by Tony Breeze - 2021 - 131 pages
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Life and Campaigns of General Robert E. Lee

James D. McCabe - Generals - 1866 - 752 pages
...announcing that the Federal Government would " do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom." This proclamation was the most decided measure upon which the Federal Government had yet ventured, but so...
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The Pioneer Boy: And how He Became President, The Story of the Life of ...

William M. Thayer - Biography & Autobiography - 1882 - 430 pages
...maintain the 'freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom." This proclamation offended many anti- slavery friends at the North, who wanted the President to strike an...
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volumes 17-18

Confederate States of America - 1889 - 894 pages
...maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom. " This proclamation was the forerunner of the famous emancipation proclamation of January 1, 1863, and it...
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Southern Historical Society Papers

Southern Historical Society - Confederate States of America - 1889 - 458 pages
...maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom." This proclamation was the forerunner of the famous emancipation proclamation of January i, 1863, and it...
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John Sherman's Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate ..., Volume 1

John Sherman - Currency question - 1895 - 722 pages
...maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom." This was carried out in a subsequent proclamation of January 1, 1863, in which the President declares: " And...
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Life and Campaigns of General Robert E. Lee

James D. McCabe - Generals - 1870 - 770 pages
...announcing that the Federal Government would 4 ' do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom." This proclamation was the most decided measure upon which .the Federal Government had yet ventured, but...
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Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America ..., Volume 2

Evert Augustus Duyckinck - Biography - 1873 - 794 pages
...maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom." This proclamation, in general accordance with the action of the Congress, was a war measure; it 408 409...
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