...your wisdom you deem some other course more expedient — deliver to the several States' authorities all commissioned officers of the United States that...criminals engaged in exciting servile insurrection. The enlisted soldiers I shall continue to treat as unwilling instruments in the commission of these...

...in your wisdom you deem some other course more expedient, deliver to the several state authorities all commissioned officers of the United States that...providing for the punishment of criminals engaged in inciting servile insurrection." ' This announcement of Mr. Davis was made January 12, 1863, and received...

...in your wisdom you deem some other course more expedient, deliver to the several State authorities all commissioned officers of the United States that...hereafter be captured by our forces in any of the Soates embraced in the proclamation, that they may be dealt with in accordance with the laws of those...

...message. Hia determination, avowed in most insolent terms, to deliver to the several State authorities all commissioned officers of the United States that may hereafter be captured, will, I think, be persevered in. You will recollect that after the proclamation of Jeff. Davis, of...