 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Frank Moore - 2006 - 808 pages
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 | 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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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support all acts of Congress, passed during the existing rebellion, with reference to slaves, so long and so far as not repealed, modified, or held void by Congress, or by decision of the Supreme Court;... 
