 | Arthur Ripstein - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 147 pages
...offer a legal justification, Lincoln cited "the power in me invested as Command-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 he described the Proclamation "as a fit and necessary... | |
 | James M. McPherson - History - 2007 - 272 pages
...fateful day Lincoln proclaimed that "by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander- in-Chief . . . and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion ... [I] do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts... | |
 | Albert A. Anderson - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 356 pages
...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, 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... | |
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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... 
