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On the recordAugust 15, 1861
that all commercial intercourse between the same and the inhabitants thereof, with the exceptions aforesaid, and the citizens of other States and other parts of the United States is unlawful, and will remain unlawful until such insurrection shall cease or has been suppressed
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Abraham Lincoln
Republican · Illinois

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Proclamation 86—Prohibiting Commercial Trade with States in Rebellion

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