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" I will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all acts of Congress, passed during the existing rebellion, with reference to slaves, so long and so far as not repealed, modified, or held void by Congress, or by decision of the Supreme Court;... "
America: the Origin of Her Present Conflict: Her Prospect for the Slave, and ... - Page 431
by James William Massie - 1864 - 472 pages
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We the People, Volume 2: Transformations

Bruce Ackerman - History - 1991 - 530 pages
...or held void by congress, or by decision of the supreme court; that I will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all proclamations of the President...by decision of the supreme court. So help me God. 64 Johnson's amnesty oath required: I, , do solemnly swear (or affirm), in presence of Almighty God,...
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Dark Hours: South Carolina Soldiers, Sailors and Citizens who Were Held in ...

History - 2002 - 576 pages
...held void by Congress, or indecisiĆ³n of the Supreme Court and that I w ill in like manner abide by and faithfully support all proclamations of the President...declared void by decision of the Supreme Court So help me Cod: and we give our solemn parole of honor (to be enforced according to military law) that we will...
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Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President

Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 532 pages
...10 percent of the 1860 voting population had taken an oath of loyalty (which included submission to "all proclamations of the President made during the existing rebellion having reference to slaves," just to make sure that emancipation remained part of the agenda), and allowed them to write new state...
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Lincoln in the Times: The Life of Abraham Lincoln, as Originally Reported in ...

David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 pages
...held void by Congress or by decision of the Supreme Court, and that I will in like manner abide by and faithfully support all proclamations of the President...of the Supreme Court. So help me God. The persons accepted from the benefits of the foregoing provisions are: All who are, or shall have been civil or...
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Lincolnites and Rebels: A Divided Town in the American Civil War

Robert Tracy McKenzie - History - 2006 - 320 pages
...recent proclamation had required Unionists not only to support the US Constitution but also to "abide by and faithfully support all proclamations of the President...the existing rebellion having reference to slaves." As Lincoln had redefined it, in other words, "loyalty" now included support for emancipation, and proslavery...
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Father Abraham: Lincoln's Relentless Struggle to End Slavery

Richard Striner - History - 2006 - 320 pages
...void by Congress, or by decision of the Supreme Court. . . ." By the same token, they would have to support "all proclamations of the President made during...the existing rebellion having reference to slaves." In other words, the only whites who would vote in rebel states would be the ones who had sworn to uphold...
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Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years

Carl Sandburg - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 476 pages
...will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all acts of Congress . . . and . . . abide by and faithfully support all proclamations of the President...existing rebellion having reference to slaves ... So help me God. The proclamation had no reference to states that had kept loyal governments, never seceded...
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Act of Justice: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War

Burrus Carnahan - History - 2007 - 214 pages
...Retaliation, July 30, 1863, Collected Works, vol. 6, 357; Official Records, series 2, vol. 6, 163. 32. "The persons excepted from the benefits of the foregoing provisions are ... all who have engaged in any way in treating colored persons, or white persons in charge of such, otherwise...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 28

American literature - 1864 - 886 pages
...held void by Congress, or by decision of the Supreme Court; and that I will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all proclamations of the President...the benefits of the foregoing provisions are all who arc, or shall have beeu, civil or diplomatic officers or agents of the so-called Confederate Government:...
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Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings Vol. 2 1859-1865 (LOA #46)

Abraham Lincoln - History - 1989 - 844 pages
...held void by Congress, or by decision of the Supreme Court; and that I will, in like manner, abide by, and faithfully support all proclamations of the President,...long and so far as not modified, or declared void by the Supreme Court. So help me God. December 74, iS6) Pass for Emily T. Helm Executive Mansion, Whom...
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