 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 400by Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 544 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Burrus Carnahan - History - 2007 - 214 pages
...Lincoln omitted the offending language from the final Emancipation Proclamation and added an injunction "upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence," unless in self-defense.24 Having charged the Lincoln administration with waging indiscriminate warfare against... | |
 | William Wells Brown - African American soldiers - 2007 - 401 pages
...the power, 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 the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof,... | |
 | Arthur Ripstein - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 147 pages
...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." Finally, after noting that his act is "sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the... | |
 | James M. McPherson - History - 2007 - 272 pages
...for suppressing said rebellion ... [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."29 Lincoln's apparently radical change of mind about his war power to emancipate slaves was caused... | |
 | Peter N. Stearns - History - 2008 - 433 pages
...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...all violence, unless in necessary self-defense; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And... | |
 | Albert A. Anderson - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 356 pages
...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,...to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable... | |
 | Philip L. Ostergard - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 293 pages
...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,...recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. violence, unless in necessary self-defence; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed,... | |
 | Tom Lansford, Thomas E. Woods, Jr. - United States - 2007 - 116 pages
...purpose qforesaul, I [President Lincoln] da order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free. . . . And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary... | |
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