 ... all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free and the executive government of the united states including...  Abraham Lincoln and His Presidency - Page 118by Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903Full view - About this book
 | Joy Hakim - America - 2003 - 356 pages
...then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize...persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom. For more information see Chapter 20, Book 6, War. Terrible War. aforesaid: mentioned... | |
 | Norman K. Risjord - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 388 pages
...the United States," Lincoln had written, "including the military and naval authority thereof . . . will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom." That language sent a shock wave through white Richmond. Thousands of slaves... | |
 | Janet Benge, Geoff Benge - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2002 - 214 pages
...then thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom." Not a sound was heard from... | |
 | 2003 - 284 pages
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 | Hondon B. Hargrove - History - 2003 - 274 pages
...then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize...persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom. "That the executive will on the 1st day of January aforesaid, by proclamation,... | |
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