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" And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be free... "
Lives of the Presidents of the United States of America from Washington to ... - Page 416
by John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1867 - 480 pages
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War Powers Under the Constitution of the United States: Military Arrests ...

William Whiting - Executive power - 1871 - 736 pages
...and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued. And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid,...said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be, free ; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the...
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Handbook of the Administrations of the United States

Edward Griffin Tileston - United States - 1871 - 240 pages
...which excepted parts are, for the present, left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued. And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and decjare, that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are and...
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The Struggle of '72: The Issues and Candidates of the Present Political Campaign

Everett Chamberlin - Campaign literature - 1872 - 586 pages
...enumeration of the Slave States, with certain reservations in favor of districts occupied by Federal troops.] 'And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid,...said designated States and parts of States are and henceforward shall be free ; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the...
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Black Union Soldiers in the Civil War

Hondon B. Hargrove - History - 2003 - 274 pages
...North Carolina, and Virginia (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, . . . ) And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid,...and declare that all persons held as slaves within the said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be, free; and that the Executive...
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Our Documents: 100 Milestone Documents from the National Archives

United States. National Archives and Records Administration - History - 2006 - 257 pages
...States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and "I do order and. declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and part of States, are, and henceforward shall he free ..." //' 0 /• • xy /> as a fit and necessary...
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Lincoln's Constitution

Daniel A. Farber - History - 2004 - 251 pages
...suppressing said rebellion." Listing the portions of the South still under Confederate control, he declared that "all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free." The Emancipation Proclamation was not up to Lincoln's usual standard of...
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Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America

Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 374 pages
...forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of [blank space for insertion]. And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid,...said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward forever shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including...
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The Most Fearful Ordeal: Original Coverage of the Civil War by Writers and ...

History - 2004 - 556 pages
...which excepted parts, are for the present, left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued. And, by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid,...said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward, shall be FREE, and that the Executive Government of the United 226 States, including...
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Into the Land of Freedom: African Americans in Reconstruction

Meg Greene - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 124 pages
...which excepted parts, are for the present, left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued. And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid,...said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military...
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Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America

Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 374 pages
...— and the listing was left blank until Lincoln had the final tally from the War Department — / do order, and declare, that all persons held as slaves...said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward forever shall be free. There was a slight shift in wording at this crucial point from...
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