12/07/1863
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"that commercial intercourse with those ports, except as to persons, things, and information contraband of war, may from that time be carried on, subject to the laws of the United States, to the limita..."
"Whereas by my proclamation of the 19th of April, 1861, it was declared that the ports of certain States, including those of Norfolk, in the State of Virginia, Fernandina and Pensacola, in the State of..."
"By order of the President of the United States"
"It has demonstrated that a people's government can sustain a national election, in the midst of a great civil war."