 | Mark K. Christ - History - 2003 - 156 pages
...Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation not only freed slaves in states in rebellion, it also allowed that "such persons, of suitable condition, will be received into the armed services of the United States, to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man... | |
 | Scot French - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 400 pages
...clearly agonized over the prospect of inciting rebellion. In a draft of the proclamation, he wrote: "I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be...when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages."124 While Northern critics questioned the constitutionality and practicality of the proclamation,... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 374 pages
...authorities would simply recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. The Proclamation would then enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain...allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages.^ Otherwise, the final draft simply executed the threat contained in the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 374 pages
...violence, unless in necessary self defence; and in all cases, when allowed, to labor faithfully, for wages. And I further declare, and make known, that...the armed service of the United States to garrison and defend forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.... | |
 | Meg Greene - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 124 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-defense; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable... | |
 | Stanley Harrold - Political Science - 268 pages
...their indecisiveness concerning black violence in behalf of freedom. On the one hand, Lincoln writes, "I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be...to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense." On the other, he announces that enslaved men "of suitable conditions, will be received... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Enslaved persons - 2005 - 410 pages
...authorities would simply recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. The Proclamation would then enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain...when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages?5 Otherwise, the final draft simply executed the threat contained in the preliminary Emancipation... | |
 | Jeffrey Danhoff - Poetry - 2005 - 114 pages
...Lincoln entered a special line right in the Proclamation specifically to warn against such actions. "...And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared...to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense." Lincoln was taking no chances and as we now know in the end he must have realized that... | |
 | Carl Schurz, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson - History - 2005 - 197 pages
...the people so declared to "be free, to abstain from 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 I farther declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed... | |
 | Peter Hitchen - 2005 - 234 pages
...'flocking in their thousands to [Union lines]'. The key passage for our purposes being, 'such persons condition will be received into the armed service of the United States positions, stations and other places.' 28 Within four weeks of Lincoln's announcement, the Massachusetts... | |
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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... 
