06/25/1862
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"Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States and Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy thereof and of the militia of the several States when called into actual service, do here..."
"In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed."
"Done at the city of Washington, this 15th day of June, A. D. 1863, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-seventh."
"No plea of alienage will be received or allowed to exempt from the obligations imposed by the aforesaid act of Congress any person of foreign birth who shall have declared on oath his intention to bec..."