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The Daily Dispatch: September 29, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
ur Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and of the independence of the United States the eighty seventh. By the President: William H. Seward, Secretary of State. Commenting upon this proclamation, the New York Herald says: The President has issued a proclamation to the people of the rebel States. It is one of the most important documents that has emanated from the Executive Department of the Republic since the adoption of the Federal Constitution. On the 25th of July last the President, in accordance with the act of Congress approved on the 17th of that month, gave sixty days notice to those in rebellion that the property of all rebels would be confiscated, and their slaves made free, if they persisted in their suicidal course. The notice expires to-day, the 23d instant, and the proclamation now issued presents the case in its new and significant aspect. The gravity of this proclamation will strike every one. It has been forced upon the natio