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...United States, shall be, then, thenceforth, and forever, free ; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts...

...suppressing said rebellion." Listing the portions of the South still under Confederate control, he declared that "all persons held as slaves within said designated...parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free." The Emancipation Proclamation was not up to Lincoln's usual standard of eloquence, but it said what...

...States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and "I do order and. declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and part of States, are, and henceforward shall he free ..." //' 0 /• • xy /> as a fit and necessary...

...counties designated as West Virginia, . . . ) And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within the said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be, free; and that the Executive...

...as if this proclamation were not issued. And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves...recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in...

...as if this proclamation were not issued. And, by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves...FREE, and that the Executive Government of the United 226 States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom...

...counties of [blank space for insertion]. And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order, and declare, that all persons held as...States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward forever shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military...

...— and the listing was left blank until Lincoln had the final tally from the War Department — / do order, and declare, that all persons held as slaves...States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward forever shall be free. There was a slight shift in wording at this crucial point from the first draft...