...22, 1862 Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three,...States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; . . . CW V: 433-436 (434) the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, though he did not announce the...

...a shot over the bow of the Confederate States, announcing that on January first, 1863, "all persons held as slaves, within any state, or designated part...States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free." The Proclamation was exactly what Emerson had been waiting for since the opening attack on Fort Sumter....

...decision. The deal had been struck. He then read the proclamation, which says, in part, "All persons held as slaves within any State or designated part...States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free."5 Unlike Miriam, Abraham Lincoln clearly offered a tit-for-tat to God. Was McClellan's dubious...

...Proclamation, which read in part: [O]n the first day of January, AD 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State... the people whereof shall then be in rebellion...and forever free; and the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain...

...containing, among other things, the following, to wit: "That on the ist day of January, AD 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part...people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the 256 United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the executive government of the...