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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Monument to General Robert E. Lee. (search)
intain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom. This proclamation was the forerunner of the famous emancipation proclamation of January 1, 1863, and it needs no commentary to show that it was not inspired solely by the desire to set the negroes free. For the proclamation came at a time when the Federal army that had besieged Richmond in the beginning of 1862 had barely saved Washlaves, and all the consequences of that measure, by returning to the Federal Union. How emancipation came about. Emancipation, therefore, was used as a threat to the States that should continue to resist the Federal arms after the 1st day of January, 1863, and protection to slavery by the Federal Government was the reward promised to such States as should cease to resist. But Mr. Lincoln has left no room for doubt as to his views on this subject. One month before the warning proclamat