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The Daily Dispatch: November 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], Late Northern News. (search)
proclamation as unconstitutional or inexpedient; but he had said the war might be brought to an end before the first of January, and that would obviate the necessity of another proclamation freeing the slaves in any States in rebellion on that date. He did not propose now to say anything against the honesty of the President. He would presume that the President was an honest man. His friends called him "Honest Abe." [Laughter.] He never knew an honest man named in that way. Neither Azariah C. Flagg or Stephen Hallett was ever called by that name. [Applause.] A Voice.--Honest Fernando Wood. [Roars of laughter, in which the Ex-Mayor joined.] Mr. Van Buren read portions of the President's Emancipation Proclamation, calling attention to the clauses which indicated how the President was to decide which States were in rebellion. He concluded that the President did not intend to declare an emancipation of slaves in those States which were represented in Congress by duly elec