...States and parts of States therein designated, were and thenceforward should be free; and, further, that the Executive Government of the United States,...including the military and naval authorities thereof, would recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons. This guarantee has been rendered especially...

...States and parts of States therein designated, were and thenceforward should be free; and, further, that the Executive Government of the United States,...including the military and naval authorities thereof, would recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons. This guarantee has been rendered especially...

...States, shall be then, thenceforth and говвткк ГНЕВ, and the Executive Government of the United States, Including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acta to repress such persons, or any of them, In any efforts...

...If [ this Proclamation were not Issued. And by virtue of the power and for the parpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that ALL PERSONS HELD AS SLAVES within said dcftignated States and parts of States ABB, АЯП нкясхгоа- i WARD SHALL BE FREE I and that...

...measure for suppressing the rebellion," "and by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves...recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons." "And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military...

...power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within the designated States, and parts of States, are and henceforward...authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of the said persons, and I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free, to abstain from all...

..." warranty of title," but also by the plain and positive promises of the Proclamation, that they " are and henceforward shall be free, and that the Executive...naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain tlie, freedom of said persons." Words could not be more binding, and the history of their introduction...

...Constitution, upon military necessity ; " and he declared that henceforward " the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities...recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons "' so emancipated. On, the nineteenth of the same month Hon. Thomas D. EHot, one of the representatives...

...the United States, shall be then, thenceforth and forever free, and the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts...

...States, and did declare " that all persons held as slaves within said States, etc., are and hereafter shall be free," and " that the executive government...recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons."* From an examination of these proclamations issued by President Lincoln, by virtue of his executive...