all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free;
Proclamation 95—Regarding the Status of Slaves in States Engaged in Rebellion Against the United States [Emancipation...
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of your military necessities you must judge and execute, but please do so in the spirit and with the purpose above indicated.
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
while I can not order as within requested, allow me to say that it is my wish for you to relieve the people from all burdens, harassments and oppressions so far as is possible consistently with your military necessities;
To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan, is our duty.
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