 | Oxford University Press - United States - 2002 - 330 pages
...Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against authority and government of the United States, and...rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do... | |
 | John Stauffer - History - 2004 - 384 pages
...issued the Emancipation Proclamation by the power vested in him "as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing... | |
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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... 
