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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... "
The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States ... - Page 255
by Horace Greeley - 1866
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Red, White, and Blue: the Issue

Franklin E. Rutledge - Political Science - 2007 - 264 pages
...president of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-inChief, 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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Act of Justice: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War

Burrus Carnahan - History - 2007 - 214 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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Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years

Carl Sandburg - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 476 pages
...United Staies in time of actual armed rebellion against authority and government of the l nited Staies, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing...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 mv purpose so to do...
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The Negro in the American Revolution

William Wells Brown - African American soldiers - 2007 - 401 pages
...Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in times of actual rebellion against the authorities and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing this rebellion, do on this, the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred...
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Ronald Dworkin

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...
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This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War

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...
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Ethics in a Democracy: A Philosophical Quest

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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The Inspired Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: How Faith Shaped an American ...

Philip L. Ostergard - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 293 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 against authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing...
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