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" ... 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, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize... "
THE AMERICAN CONFLICT: A HSTORY OF THE GREAT REBELLION - Page 255
by HORACE GREELEY - 1866
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Reports of Cases in Law and Equity, Argued and Determined in the ..., Volume 35

Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1868 - 480 pages
...President, in the emancipation proclamation, dated January the first, AD 1863, recommends to the freedmen, " that in all cases, when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages," (12 vol. US 1268.) I perceive no legal distinction in the plaintiff's hiring these men to defendant,...
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The Loyal People of the North-west: A Record of Prominent Persons, Places ...

Stella S. Flood Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1869 - 478 pages
...military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of the said persons, and I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to...to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary selfdefence, and I recommend to them that in all cases where allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable...
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The Loyal People of the North-west: A Record of Prominent Persons, Places ...

Stella S. Flood Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1869 - 458 pages
...military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of the said persons, and I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to...to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary selfdefence, and I recommend to them that in all cases where allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable...
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The Works of Charles Sumner, Volume 8

Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1874 - 542 pages
...Emancipation has used the following language : " I recommend to them," — that is, to the freedmen, — " that in all cases, when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages." Such is the recommendation from that supreme authority which decreed Emancipation. They are to labor,...
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War Powers Under the Constitution of the United States: Military Arrests ...

William Whiting - Executive power - 1871 - 728 pages
...the military and naval authorities thereof, will r,ecognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to...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...
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Handbook of the Administrations of the United States

Edward Griffin Tileston - United States - 1871 - 240 pages
...the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to...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...
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The National Political Manual: Comprising Facts and Figures, Historical ...

Erastus Buck Treat - United States - 1872 - 386 pages
...the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to...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...
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The National Political Manual

Erastus Buck Treat - 1872 - 404 pages
...the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to...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...
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Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events: Embracing ...

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1872 - 886 pages
...been foreshadowed in that passage of the Emancipation Proclamation, in which the President had said : "And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will bo received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations and...
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The Presidents and Their Administrations: A Handbook of Political Parties ...

Lewis O. Thompson - Caribbean Research Council - 1873 - 336 pages
...the military and naval authorities thereof, Will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to...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...
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