And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be, free ; and that the Executive Government of the United States,... Life of Abraham Lincoln - Page 394by Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 544 pagesFull view - About this book
| United States. Adjutant-General's Office - 1864 - 282 pages
...York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth,) and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this...that the Executive government of the United States,' including the military and uaval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said... | |
| Joseph Parrish Thompson - Christianity and religious humanism - 1863 - 98 pages
...York, Princess Ann and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth, and which excepted parts are, for the present, left precisely as if this...for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare thttt all persons held as slaves within said designated states and parts of states are and henceforward... | |
| Education - 1897 - 678 pages
...respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to-wit [named] . . And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid,...persons held as slaves within said designated States . . . are and henceforth shall be free. . . .—Lincoln's Works, //, pp. 287-88. The great question... | |
| Charles Sumner - Kansas - 1868 - 208 pages
...the fullest assurance of the irreversible character of this sublime edict, he has further announced " that the Executive Government of the United States,...military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons." Already an enlightened Commission has been constituted,... | |
| Charles Sumner - France - 1863 - 90 pages
...the fullest assurance of the irreversible character of this sublime edict, he has further announced " that the Executive Government of the United States^...military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons." Already an enlightened Commission has been constituted,... | |
| george q. cannon - 1863 - 852 pages
...North Carolina and Virginia, excepting a few parishes in Lousiana and a few counties in Virginia, " are and henceforward shall be FREE ¡" and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and nava! authorities thereof, wiU recognize and maintain the freedom of said... | |
| United States - Law - 1863 - 324 pages
...York, Princess Ann, 'and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth,) and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued. e!are?, therein And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that... | |
| JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE - 1863 - 920 pages
...suppressing said rebellion," he did " AVER AND DECLARE THAT ALL PERSONS HELD AS SLAVES WITHIN CERTAN DESIGNATED STATES AND PARTS OF STATES, ARE, AND HENCEFORWARD SHALL BE FREE," was a legitimate and righteous exercise of "the power vested in him as Commander-in-Chief of the Army... | |
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...York, Princess Anne, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth), and which excepted and maintain the freedom of said persons. "And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free... | |
| United States. War Department - 1864 - 284 pages
...York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth, ) and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this...military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free... | |
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