 ... that all persons held as slaves within said designated states and parts of states are and henceforward shall be free and that the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authorities thereof will recognize and maintain...  The Works of William H. Seward - Page 595by William Henry Seward - 1884Full view - About this book
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Enslaved persons - 2005 - 410 pages
...authorities would simply recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. The Proclamation would then enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain...when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages?5 Otherwise, the final draft simply executed the threat contained in the preliminary Emancipation... | |
 | Jeffrey Danhoff - Poetry - 2005 - 114 pages
...Lincoln entered a special line right in the Proclamation specifically to warn against such actions. "...And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared...to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense." Lincoln was taking no chances and as we now know in the end he must have realized that... | |
 | Carl Schurz, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson - History - 2005 - 197 pages
...the people so declared to "be free, to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense, and I recommend to them, that in all cases, when allowed,...they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And I farther declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed... | |
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