...first day of January, in the year of our Lord one-thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all per sons held as slaves within any State, or designated part...shall be then, thence-forward, and FOREVER FREE.... By the President, si Abraham Lincoln.21 A month after Lincoln's issuing the Emancipation Proclamation,...

...among other things, the following, to wit: — " That, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or any designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the...

...States, and the colonizing of them; that on January 1, 1863, all slaves in states or parts of states in rebellion against the United States "shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free," and the Federal Government would "recognize the freedom of such persons." It was a preliminary proclamation....

...proclaimed that on January 1, 1863, all persons held as slaves in any place where the people were then in rebellion against the United States "shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free. . . ." Two minor changes were made at the suggestion of Seward, and the document, known as the Preliminary...

...containing, among other things, the following, to wit: "That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all...and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such...

...22, 1862 Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three,...States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; . . . CW V: 433-436 (434) the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, though he did not announce the...

...a shot over the bow of the Confederate States, announcing that on January first, 1863, "all persons held as slaves, within any state, or designated part...States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free." The Proclamation was exactly what Emerson had been waiting for since the opening attack on Fort Sumter....

...decision. The deal had been struck. He then read the proclamation, which says, in part, "All persons held as slaves within any State or designated part...States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free."5 Unlike Miriam, Abraham Lincoln clearly offered a tit-for-tat to God. Was McClellan's dubious...

...Proclamation, which read in part: [O]n the first day of January, AD 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State... the people whereof shall then be in rebellion...and the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such...

...containing, among other things, the following, to wit: "That on the ist day of January, AD 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part...people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the 256 United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the executive government of the...