 ... 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
 | Harold Holzer, Edna G. Medford, Frank J. Williams - History - 2006 - 180 pages
...finally acquiesced so that the final Emancipation Proclamation read "that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities...recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons." The proclamation would "enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence,... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 pages
...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 freedom of Raid persons. And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free, to abstain from all violence,... | |
 | Herbert Aptheker - African Americans - 2006 - 298 pages
...On the designated day the president declared such persons free "and that the Executive Government, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons." The great pronouncement went on to urge these individuals, "to abstain from all violence,... | |
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