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John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights, Chapter 18: Lincoln and Emancipation (search)
Chapter 18: Lincoln and Emancipation Messrs. Nicolay and Hay, who were Mr. Lincoln's private secretaries during the time he was President, and afterwards the authors of his most elaborate biography, say: The blessings of an enfranchised race must forever hail him as their liberator. Says Francis Curtis in his History of the Republican Party, in speaking of the President's Emancipation Proclamation: On the 1st day of January, 1863, the final proclamation of freedom was issued, and every negro slave within the confines of the United States was at last made free. Other writers of what is claimed to be history, almost without number, speak of the President's pronouncement as if it caused the bulwarks of slavery to fall down very much as the walls of Jericho are said to have done, at one blast, overwhelming the whole institution and setting every bondman free. Indeed, there are multitudes of fairly intelligent people who believe that slaveholding in this country ceased the ver
John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights, Appendix: Emancipation proclamation (search)
Appendix: Emancipation proclamation January 1, 1863.-Whereas, on the 22d day of September, 1862, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit: That on the 1st day1st day of January, 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever free, and the Executive government of thernment of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do on this first day of January, 1863, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days from tnto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this first day of January, 1863, and of the independence of the United States the Eighty-seventh. Abraham Lincoln. By the President: Willia