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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 26: (search)
while violating its letter and spirit for a purpose palpably hostile to it, was needful for the defense of the South. In the future progress of this work it will be seen how often we have been charged with the very offenses committed by our enemy—offenses of which the South was entirely innocent, and of which a chivalrous people would be incapable. There was in this the old trick of the fugitive thief who cries Stop thief! as he runs. In his message to Congress one year later, on December 8, 1863, the President of the United States thus boasts of his proclamation: The preliminary emancipation proclamation, issued in September, was running its assigned period to the beginning of the new year. A month later the final proclamation came, including the announcement that colored men of suitable condition would be received into the war service. The policy of emancipation and of employing black soldiers gave to the future a new aspect, about which hope and fear and doubt contended
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 33: (search)
ed during the year 1863. The object of the military power was to secure such civil authority as to enforce the abolition of slavery; until the way was clear to that result, every method of organization was held in abeyance. Meanwhile, on December 8, 1863, the President of the United States issued a proclamation which contained his plan for making a Union state out of a fragment of a Confederate state, and also granting an amnesty to the general mass of the people on taking an oath of allegia to carry out these so-called modifications of the state constitution. This adds another to the deeds of darkness done in the name of republicanism. Meantime some persons in the northern part of Arkansas, acting under the proclamation of December 8, 1863, got together a so-called state convention on January 8, 1864, and adopted a revised constitution containing the slavery prohibition, etc. This was ordered to be submitted to a popular vote, and at the same state officers were to be elected.