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" And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States, to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon... "
The Loyal People of the North-west: A Record of Prominent Persons, Places ... - Page 207
by Stella S. Flood Coatsworth - 1869 - 402 pages
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Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom: The Union and Slavery in the ...

Howard Jones - History - 2002 - 260 pages
...detractors in curiously ignoring the universal power that pulsated in its closing words: "Upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted...judgment of mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God."7 In a strange twist of events, Marx's chastisement of Lincoln for presenting such a sterile and...
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Tempered Strength: Studies in the Nature and Scope of Prudential Leadership

Ethan M. Fishman - Business & Economics - 2002 - 248 pages
...success of the first. The final version of the Emancipation Proclamation conveys this dual intent: It is "sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity."37 Lincoln's scrupulous attention to legal detail should not obscure the moral intention...
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One Lord, Many Ministries

Gregory S. Faust - Religion - 2003 - 194 pages
...within any State .............. shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act ..... of justice,,...of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God." But hey!! Shouldn't we believe in survival of the fittest? In any case! Not only did this guy Lincoln...
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Abraham Lincoln and a Nation Worth Fighting for

History - 2003 - 260 pages
...Independence — except for the final paragraph, adapted from Chase, which read, "And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted...of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God." Reaction at home and abroad was generally favorable, except from the Democrats. Secretary of War Stanton,...
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Black Union Soldiers in the Civil War

Hondon B. Hargrove - History - 2003 - 274 pages
...positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, 1 invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God. Appendix B Army...
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Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President

Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 532 pages
...the United States." And at the prompting of Salmon Chase, Lincoln added at the end an invocation of "the considerate judgment of mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God." After a lengthy morning public reception and three hours in formal hand-shaking with the diplomatic...
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Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism

Susan Jacoby - History - 2004 - 433 pages
...Originally, the president had planned to end the historic decree freeing the slaves with the sentence "And upon this, sincerely believed to be an act of...military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind."3 Supposedly acting on Chase's recommendation, Lincoln added "and the gracious favor of Almighty...
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Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America

Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 374 pages
...December 31, and at that meeting, Salmon Chase "proposed a felicitous closing sentence": Upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted...upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgement of mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God. It was, in effect, the offering of a...
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The Most Fearful Ordeal: Original Coverage of the Civil War by Writers and ...

History - 2004 - 556 pages
...stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. And, upon this act — sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted...Constitution — upon military necessity — I invoke the considerable judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God. In witness whereof I have...
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The Constitutionalist: Notes on the First Amendment

George Anastaplo - Law - 2005 - 918 pages
...Emancipation Proclamation was drafted. The limited interference with slavery in that instrument was "sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity. ..." Ibid., 2:288. See, also, chap. 4, n. 56, above; chap. 7, nn. 54, 55, 95, below. See Walter Berns,...
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