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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 154 States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. "
The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States ... - Page 255
by Horace Greeley - 1866
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Abraham Lincoln: A History, Volume 6

John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 598 pages
...unless in necessary self-defense ; and in all cases, when CHAP. xix. allowed, to labor faithfully for wages. And I further declare, and make known, that...the armed service of the United States to garrison and defend forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service....
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Abraham Lincoln: A History, Volume 6

John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 600 pages
...self-defense; and in all cases, when CHAP.XIX. allowed, to labor faithfully for wages. And I farther declare, and make known, that such persons of suitable...the armed service of the United States to garrison and defend forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service....
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Courage and Conscience: Black & White Abolitionists in Boston

Donald M. Jacobs - History - 1993 - 262 pages
...the people so declared to bo free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary wlMeiVinr : ami I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfally for reasonable wages. And I farther declare and make known that such persons, of suitable...
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Lincoln

David Herbert Donald - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 724 pages
...would be received into the armed forces — though as yet he limited their role "to garrison and defend forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts." An unstated corollary of the President's new position was that plans to colonize blacks outside the...
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Voices of the Spirit: Sources for Interpreting the African American Experience

Denise Marie Glover - History - 1995 - 228 pages
...document was clearly issued as a military move "for suppressing said rebellion." The proclamation stated that "such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed services of the United States." The intention of this document was to defeat efforts of the Confederacy...
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American Culture: An Anthology of Civilization Texts

Anders Breidlid - Art - 1996 - 428 pages
...upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed,...other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said senice. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution,...
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America's God and Country: Encyclopedia of Quotations

William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - Literary Collections - 1994 - 868 pages
...freedom of said persons. And I hereby enjoin upon 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 where allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages.... And upon this act, sincerely believed...
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The Oxford Book of the American South: Testimony, Memory, and Fiction

Edward L. Ayers, Bradley C. Mittendorf - American literature - 1997 - 608 pages
...ears caught the words: And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense; and I...allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. He was folding the paper before Vyry realized that the tears were running down her face. Then she turned...
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Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Strugg

J. Anthony Lukas - History - 2012 - 884 pages
...Proclamation on January 1, 1863. But in that document the president said only that emancipared blacks would be "received into the armed service of the United...and other places and to man vessels of all sorts," which would have kept ex-slaves in defensive roles. One powerful advocate of enlisting black troops...
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Abraham Lincoln Wisdom and Wit

Louise Bachelder - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 76 pages
...freedom of said persons. And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free, to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary selfdefense; and I recommend...allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And 1 further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the...
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