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Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the Pres dent of the United States, containing, among oth things, the following, to wit: “That on the first day of January, in the year of ou Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-thr all persons held as slaves within any State, or de nated part of a State, the people whereof shall the in rebellion against the United States, shall be th thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executiv Government of the United States, including the m tary and naval authority thereof, will recognize a maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them any efforts they may make for their actual freedom That the Executive will, on the first day of Januar aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof spectively shall then be in rebellion against the U ed States; and the fact that any State, or the peop thereof, shall on that day be in good faith represen in the Congress of the United States by members sen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the q ified voters of such State shall have participated shall in the absence of strong countervailing test ny be deemed conclusive evidence that such State the people thereof are not then in rebellion agains Ferenc Morton Szasz Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns q Connected Lives and Legends Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns + ...
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