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LINCOLN'S
Emancipation Proclamation
CHARLES EBERSTADT
COPYRIGHT 1950 BY
DUSCHNES CRAWFORD, INC.
NEW YORK
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LINCOLN'S EMANCIPATION
PROCLAMATION
New Colophon
LINCOLN'S EMANCIPATION
PROCLAMATION
Charles Eberstadt
"W,
that all
they are
Men
endowed by
among
these
half slave
Proclamation.
The proclamation
4, 1776. Four
Independence
days later, on July 8th at
Hall, was read the lofty Declaration, and its
extolled
ness.
hold
as a
equal."
Truth
that "all
The founding
all
Men
are created
it
has also
had its critics. Our purpose here is not to evaluate, for certainly it is above our poor power
to add or detract. From the time of its promulgation there have passed another fourscore
and seven
discoveries
we
Emancipation Proclamation.
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
The
week
in
sit
in the cipher
room
of
chief of the
Staff.
visits to
it
script,
it,
to
tails:
inDLC):
thing special."
The major
gave him at
least
On
He
1
Major Eckert conflictingly gives the date as in June
but "after McClellan's Seven Days' Fight." Bates, D. H.
Lincoln in the Telegraph Office (New York, 1907), pp.
139-140.
1.
tion,
"Message to Congress, July 14, 1862, Enclosing Draft of a Bill to Compensate any State
2.
Ibid.
3
Ibid, p. 140.
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
which may abolish slavery within
its limits,
the
and
earnestly
recommend."
"Message to Congress, July 17, 1862, approv." ining the Act to Suppress Insurrection
3.
list
tion Act."
would
lose;
"property"
valuable
the
for
they
this step,
called
it
1862.
Presi-
It
my own
estly
that
was a military necessity absolutely essenthe salvation of the Union, that we must
1
the slaves or be ourselves subdued.
it
tial for
free
On July
from an
15,
(J.
for a victory
down
this re-
artist, F. B.
Carpenter:
1
Sella
work or preach
The
first
working copy of
this
is
draft
not
on
known
Lincoln's
2
Carpenter, F. B. Six Months in the White House with
Abraham Lincoln (New York, 1867), pp. 20-21.
I,
70.
Ibid, p. 22.
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
shown
20th or
paper,
2 1st, it is
on two pages
12^ by 7%
paragraphs, the
inches.
first
of
is
in
on July
it
of lined note
It
his victory at
slaves
Philadelphia.
Company of
Nicolay and Hay stated that
but
it
found
its
they facsimiled
claimed forever
free.
proclamation
actually
is
two proclamations.
when
in the Library
possession in 1890
coincidence that
coln's hand,
it,
as a
delphia;
may be regarded
1,
1863 as
Although he had put aside the July version, the President had it always near at hand
and "from time to time touched it up here
and there, adding or changing a line."
hen
Lee crossed the Potomac, Lincoln resolved
it,
Lincoln Collection.
from every
side, the
President nevertheless
"My paramount
noncommital statement:
object in this struggle
and
is
is
to save the
Union,
To a delegation
ing
He answered Gree-
that day;
if
and the
fact
is
fixed
it
up
13,
little
22, 1862]
1862, he said:
I
hope
if it is
The
1
Nicolay and Hay. Abraham Lincoln, a History
York, 1890), IV, 402-405.
(New
preliminary proc-
23, 1862.
23, 1862.
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
day was written several miles outside of
Washington at the Soldiers' Home. Here,
when
it
President
it
to Vice-
He
When
the rebel
army was
at Frederick, I deter-
mined
as
soon as
it
survived.
script has
his
own
United
who
gave
it
Commission.
After Lincoln's funeral services in Albany in
to the
States Sanitary
. .
several points,
and
a dis-
was "long, earnest, and, on the general principle involved, harmonious." Seward rec2
ommended
as well as to
The
New York
State
lished at
letters,
photo-
in log-type
LAMATION."
by
the
73
reads: "First
Freedom Train.
The
its
fate of the
Emancipation Proclamation, by
President Lincoln."
Some
on Sunday morn-
now
in the
no reason
New
above described, is
York State Library. I have
as
to believe that a
cit., I,
p. 143.
that
is
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
document and
serted in the
in the authentic
to nine
work
is
bility that it
and
yet
displays
it
cate that
it is
original.
The
enough variation
to indi-
it
known
being
the preliminary
and the
final
proclamations.
not available,
added.
It
and the
clerk
official
It
was
it
that
same
afternoon of September 22, 1862 and the engrossed copy was officially
filed. It is
now
in
band
sang jubilantly outside the Executive Mansion.
a brass
What
I did, I
full deliberation,
re-
1) is
a descriptive heading.
in States
words "Notice of," which indicate definite priority. The date "1865" is, of course,
an error for "1863," and suggests the haste
with which this first rough issue was put
through the press. It was printed at the Government Printing Office, probably on September 22, 1862, for immediate disseminato the
interlineation, the
headlines
it
Under boldfaced
Lincoln
published
New
cit.,
this
of President
morning."
cor-
3
3
The number in parentheses after each edition discussed in the essay refers to the appended bibliography,
where will be found a technical description with further
data and locations.
p. 164.
23, 1862.
10
FIRST PRINTING OF
(NO.
1)
3
the people thereof, are* not then in rebellion against the United
States.
act
is
hereby called
to
figures following:
9. And be it further enacted. That all slaves of persons
shall hereafter be engaged in rebellion against the government of the United States, or who shall in any way give aid or
comfort thereto, escaping from such persons and taking refuge
within the lines of the army; and all slaves captured from such
persons, or deserted by them and coming under the control of the
government of the United States; and all slaves of such persons
found on [or] being within any place occupied by rebel forces and
afterwards occupied by the forces of the United States, shall be
deemed captives of war, and shall be forever free of their servitude, and not again held as slaves.
"Sec. 10. And be it fur titer enacted, That no slave escaping into
any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, from any other
State, shall be delivered up, or in any way impeded or hindered
of his liberty, except for crime, or some offence against the laws,
unless the person claiming said fugitive shall first make oath that
the person to whom the labor or service of such fugitive is alleged
to be due is his lawful owner, and has not borne arms against the
United States in the present rebellion, nor in any way given aid
and comfort thereto; and no person engaged in the military or
naval service of the United States shall, under any pretence whatever, assume to decide on the validity of the claim of any person
"Sec.
who
service."
And
the military
And
recited.
who
recommend
of the United
States
shall
In witness whereof,
have hereunto
set
my
Done
[r,. s.]
Washington, this twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and of the independence of the United
States the eighty-seventh.
at the City of
ABRAHAM
By
the President:
William H. Seward,
Secretary of State.
LINCOLN.
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
rected to "there." It
measuring 714 by
Lord Stuart, on
September 23rd he would have transmitted
it to Lord Russell. I have examined a photostat of the copy sent by Stuart to Russell on
that date (now in the British Museum) and
identified it as a clipping from the National
Intelligencer of September 23, 1862.
is
334 inches.
is
known
to exist. (See
insert.)
Rushed
who had
The
immediate need for it, this first edition doubtless was used as copy for the formal State
Department folio and for the publication in
"Dear
retary of
am
Sir: I
War
copy of the
to get a certified
It is
The
Department
found a copy of
surprised
when
contains a
2) is
the usual
have not
first
page
To the Diplomatic
Officers of the
United States in
if nowhere
Department rec-
folio. I
this edition,
is
"CIRCULAR.
and Consular
official State
else,
&
about 13 14 by 814 inches, possibly on a fourpage sheet with the other three pages blank.
It will be headed: "BY THE PRESIDENT
ber
so, too,
The
1862.
this
United States mail in the forenoon of September 27, 1862. Accordingly a publication
HAM
LINCOLN,
President
,"
and
at
circulated
among
Washington, and
if it
appeared in
11
left
with
January
in rebellion on
1,
1865
(_6lQ,
A PROCLAMATION.
Abraham
Lincoln, President of the United States of America, and Commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy thereof, do
hereby proclaim and declare that hereafter, as heretofore, the war
I,
will be prosecuted for the object of practically restoring the constitutional relation
States,
may
be suspended or disturbed.
it is my purpose, upon the next meeting of Congress, to
again recommend the adoption of a practical measure tendering
pecuniary aid to the free acceptance or rejection of all Slave
States, so called, the people whereof may not then be in rebellion
against the United States, and which States may then have volun-
That
may voluntarily
adopt, immediate or
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
rected to "there." It
measuring 714 by
3^
Lord Stuart, on
September 23rd he would have transmitted
it to Lord Russell. I have examined a photostat of the copy sent by Stuart to Russell on
that date (now in the British Museum) and
identified it as a clipping from the National
Intelligencer of September 23, 1862.
is
is
known
to exist. (See
insert.)
Rushed
off
The
third edition (No. 3) of the preliminary proclamation is, like the first two, a State
"Dear
retary of
am
Sir: I
War
copy of the
to get a certified
The
&
Department
found a copy of
surprised
when
else, certainly
2) is
the usual
folio. I
have not
official State
this edition,
if nowhere
Department rec-
in the State
y4
by 814 inches; the proclamation occupies pp. 3-4, p. 2 is blank, and the first page
contains a "CIRCULAR. To the Diplomatic
and Consular Officers of the United States in
12
It is
tion of
when
it
be headed:
"BY
General
so, too,
The
as
THE PRESIDENT
ber
6,
1862.
this
United States mail in the forenoon of September 27, 1862. Accordingly a publication
HAM
LINCOLN,
President
,"
and
at
circulated
among
Washington, and
if it
appeared in
11
German Lloyd
left
with
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
a copy of
Greenly-Clements Collec-
and
Besides the
DNA copy,
there
is
gress
copy
is
But what
a noble flaw!
The
clipping was
York
864,
official
to paste
onto the
final
(No. 4)
is
War Depart-
139. It
is
printed
it
Archives from E. D.
Z. Curtis at St. Louis,
Townsend
to Major H.
and dated Washington,
made up
General Orders, No. 140 also was dated September 24, 1862 and it may be inferred that
General Orders, No. 139 was on the press as
Townsend's letter of September 29, 1 862 was
written. It
may be
appropriate to mention
of
it
four
one."
first
more
official
editions
The
fifth
edition (No. 5)
is
proclamation
Sam
Extra
have seen.
The
It is
headed "Uncle
Abolition of Slavery."
It
was printed
at
The
is
a privately
A Proclamation."
In ad-
The
7) is
the only
"The Proclamation
wrapper-title reads:
tively
common.
Distribution
amounted
booklet
to
12
is
of
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
plus printed paper covers, ^i/8 by
2i/
inches
is
was printed
listed
at
toration of peace,
and an
The
ter-
providing he had
December
lions of
was on millips.
position
announced
final
state
the strong
He
He
the Proclamation.
me that it was
hard to drive him from a position which he had
once taken.
The President says he would
not stop the Proclamation if he could, and could
2
not if he would
Hallelujahl
will stand firm.
said to
to be.
The
that the
it
was not.
stated
Only
showed the
lutions,
members supported
which were
ninety-four votes.
see
effect
forty-five
we
anti-slavery
the Proclamation. 1
him
Border
is
down from
of January
first
signs of
M.
On the
first
pensated emancipation.
no
J.
1st,
free gov-
On December
lamation of January
and
Northern misgiving.
ritory, it
power
exercise of
laid
the reso-
on the table by
On December
15,
He
1
J. M. Forbes
Sumner Mss.
1862
to
an argument.
He
It
18, 1862.
2
Sumner to George Livermore, Washington, December 25 and 28, 1862. Proceedings, Mass. Hist. Soc. XLIV,
it
was
596.
13
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
was like a talk of one of the old prophets. And
though he did not tell me in the end whether
the proclamation would be issued or not, I went
home comforted and uplifted, and I believed in
Abraham Lincoln from that day. 1
At
MANUSCRIPTS
29,
located,
to the Cabinet.
to Nicolay, asking
is
him
preserved.
to
He gave it
have made
five
or
six
made
for Stanton,
whose
oral approval
some
after
if
may
there was
The
criti-
it
and
FINAL PROCLAMATION -
30,
to present
on Tuesday, December
10 a.m.
He asked
document
close at-
He
called a
written
all
1-2 of two
hand
copies are in the
of one clerk and pages
1-2 of the other two copies were written by
this in
grand
down
style.
The
suggestions were
in order
much
new
year but a
new
era. Special
identical telegrams
ley of the
New
of the Times.
The
2
The meeting may have taken place earlier than has
been stated. The Washington Evening Star (December
31, 1862) reports under heading "AN EARLY CABINET
MEETING," as follows: "This morning at eight o'clock
the cabinet met and remained in session until 1 a.m. It is
believed that they were in consultation over some portions
of the proclamation expected to be issued tomorrow."
1
Quoted
War
in
14
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
Brown UniverDated December 31, 1862, they
Library.
mony whereof
1,
is
set
my name
ascertained
witness whereof
Emancipation Proclama-
have hereunto
read: "The Proclamation cannot be telegraphed to you until during the day tomor-
of January
testi-
hand
have hereunto
set
my
till
..."
tomorrow."
At last Lincoln received the vital messages
from General Dix and Michael Hahn (orig-
of state.
o'clock
new copy
and
engrossed and, as
it
to
have
was eleven
were
arriv-
then in rebellion.
ready to emancipate.
hand the beginning of the procclipped and pasted the twoparagraph quotation from the preliminary
proclamation and proceeded in so calm and
methodical a manner that he paused to endorse the copy from which he had made the
firm, clear
lamation.
He
we
it
the revelry of
yet.
the President
but forbore to ask whether the word of liberation had been proclaimed." No, the edict
of freedom
had not
yet
been proclaimed;
rated
some
after in-
ning Star one of the greatest scoops in newspaper history. It is apparently unknown to
He did not
So
it
The
The
President signed
so,
it
but, per-
he noted a serious
15
found its
way out of the State Department and into
the columns of the Star and onto the streets
of Washington early on the afternoon of
January 1, 1863 before the official text had
been signed.
istic
The
remarkable
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
name"
and it was
copied by the National Republican on January 2, 1863 and elsewhere.
Whether this unofficial engrossed copy
a question
comfort of
Seward
At the Fair
the "testimony
difficult
now
to answer.
error,
More
is
likely
tary
Commission
of Congress
had some
is
if it
secretary,
his history.
kept
it,
for
it
Lincoln himself.
From Cole
it
passed to his
it
it
so, too,
can one
and the corrected engrossed copy with the words "withand." Both of these were picked up
ness
by Seward and, accompanied by his son Fred,
he brought them to the White House in the
late afternoon. Without ceremony and in the
of the original autographic draft
it,
The Presi-
to the State
great seal
my
That
We may
it
it
made, was sold at auction May 9, 1912 (Anderson Auction Company, Catalogue 958,
item 153). It is now in the New York State
Library. Another, but later, facsimile of the
Bryan manuscript was published by the Lincoln Art Publishing Company of New York
in 1895; this
is
a large folio
showing both
The
R. Barrett.
late Oliver
Just as
whom
teen lines.
forgery.
1
Lossing, Benson J. Pictorial History of the Civil
(Hartford, 1868), II, 560-564.
to be
16
this
War
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
a forged signature
is
The
first
final
proclamation (No.
gress. It is a
on
is
apparently
is
italicized
tion." It
We
final
noon of January
and others had been promised the
ist.
splendent,
some
official
copy
official folio
ary
1863. It differs
1,
heading.
the counterpart of
It is definitely
in punctuation
of the telegraph.
but elsewhere
opening parenthesis
place,
The
number
it is
is
in lower-case; the
tions the
commas
are omitted
from "I do
of States are,
of errors
first
has a descriptive
the
By
official
edition.
first
re-
Office,
the
after-
Raymond
text
and Seward
ir-
is
only,
a two-page
all
persons held as
and parts
on
the people
capital
LAMATION.
are reversed.
first
itial
.";
edition the
and the
"C"
"i" of
"independence" an
in-
The number
of copies printed
of the
17
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
The
purposes, or
Evening, January
2,
1863. It
is
1) is
Department of
State. It
circular letter
tion
a circular
text,
punc-
and other
ing:
fact,
TON.
The
State
Department
folio.
is
the earliest
it
Department.
It
may be assumed
that this
3,
slightly
ings.
The
various
official State
Department
folio
have ex-
Two
of these
(MWA and
Sumner and postmarked "WashApr 63." That date establishes nothto when it was printed. The complete
signed by
ington 6
tainly
2,
1862
mation
to
Lord Russell
received the
the one he
official
in
London.
Had
he
have examined
Jan y
it
trimmed
off. It
is
is
at the
American Embassy
in Lon-
It is
as a
usually
Adams
F.
don.
first
H. Seward,
is
in the British
ing as
January
5,
1863.
The fifth edition (No. 12) is the familWar Department publication, General
is
corresponds to the
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EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
and carries the name of L. Thomas at the end
with a space provided for the signature of the
Assistant Adjutant General. Some fifteen different reissues occur in compiled versions
may
military appointment,
ceded No.
1.
no
editions.
mor
as follows:
mation will
copies have been sent today
commanding
to the Generals
General Orders
which
ac-
letters of transmittal
The Adjutant
and reveal
Orders, No.
Orders, No.
finally written
if
1st,
at this period
new
series for
21
were printed. Of
these,
some
to the following
Virginia,
Mary's
(District).
This edition
One Hundred
where
the
it is
first,
is
Influential
American Books,
and
certainly the
first
separate,
The
"A
proclamation (No.
4,
13)
is
14, 1863. It is
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
pub-
and government
and others of the Naval Serv-
uary 29, 1862 [sic] promulgating the proclamation. The text begins: "The Proclama-
"The
followis
The
ice."
noticed
final
dated January
eral
1st,
1863,
is
published in Gen-
ernment of the
The
by
M. Forbes about
J.
15).
This
1st,
pam-
the instance of
pation.
freedom, and
in the cause of
be seen from the following extract (Ogdensburg, N. Y., True Advance, January 23, 1863) that he undertook
it
will
know
to
let
the darkies
This would place the printing of the seventh and eighth editions at Boston about the
third
week in January.
The
at
New
Orleans.
It is
22
officers
and
soldiers of this
One might
3.
many
search of the
files
in
War Department,
the National War College Library, and elsewhere has failed to reveal, however, that any
other was printed. Presumably the distribution of the Adjutant General's edition was
large enough to make further reprinting
unnecessary.
Thus
far
we have
and
of-
no more
official editions.
Had
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
show was not presented
the
crusade.
Union
minder of
the
it
provided an ever-present
re-
and
thus was important as a propaganda and
morale factor. Not only was this true with
regard to fighting and winning the war, but
the war's true justification,
words
set to
Furthermore,
tical
to
it
Thus no mention
St.
Thomas Tidende
St.
in the Danish
West
eral Orders,
Amendment which,
more often
re-
garded
The
1863 (Nos.
1-7),
when
it
was superseded
final
it lists
1,
writings.
it
by publisher the
non-official separate editions that appeared
to December, 1865 (Nos. 17-52) when the
proclamation was superseded by the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.
In compiling this bibliography strict adherence to the above limits has necessarily
been observed, thus precluding enumeration
The
An
fields,
not productive of positive results. For example, the author has studied thousands of
varieties of patriotic envelopes, broadside
with indifferent
results,
and engravings
text; so
cinating
one
Osoohis
rather extensive
of
appeared in Chicago
proc-
1863 and
One
The
in alphabetical order
years.
versions.
lists
numerous compiled
lamation appeared, too, in the various contemporary editions of Lincoln's speeches and
that does not qualify for inclusion
January
final
the
as separates
had an
23
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
Hearsay reports and references to titles
found are generally omitted;
stat.
The
that cannot be
been obliged
American
flag;
others that
to
to rely
upon
inference, he can
work
arise to
numerous new
in type,
is
issues will
haunt him.
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the
eighty-seventh.
ABRAHAM
1862]
[copy:] Eberstadt
First edition.
is
PRELIMINARY PROCLAMATION
1.
and Commander-inthereof, do /
Thomas I. Starr
Thomas W. Streeter
NO.
ica,
as heretofore, the
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Corresponds to No.
8.
["NOTICE OF ISSUANCE"]
NO.
2.
[OFFICIAL
ary
i,
1865
HAM LINCOLN,
24
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE
cerned:
of America the eighty-seventh. ABRAHAM
/
COLN,
September
circa
23, 1863]
Unlocated
[copies:]
The
title, as
given,
is
and
conjectural
jutant General.
NO.
OFFICIAL:
3.
[blank]
1862]
and Commander-in-chief
Navy
thereof,
seventh.
of the
[61
Army
lines]
and
eighty-
President:
WILLIAM
retary of State.
H.
SEWARD,
Sec-
by
81/4
September
CtY,
Fourth edition. This edition has often been described as the first separate appearance of the
preliminary proclamation just as General Orders, No. 1 of 1863 is generally thought to be
proclamation on pages
CSmH,
inches,
the
Office,
fact
first
is
The
25, 1862]
[copies:] CtY,
Third
edition, corresponding to
No.
11. (See
NO.
p. 318.)
5.
NO.
4.
139]
EVE,
GENERAL ORDERS, / No. 139. / WAR October 4th, 1862./ [thin double rule] THE
DEPARTMENT, / ADJUTANT GEN- ABOLITION OF SLAVERY. / [filet] /
ERAL'S OFFICE, / Washington, Sept.
1862. / The following Proclamation by
President
is
and government
of the
24,
the
WASHINGTON,
information
Army and
all
con-
25
September
/ [filet] /
22, 1862.
/ I,
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
President of the
United
and Commander-
States
of America,
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
in-Chief of the
[36 lines]
article of
March,
President:
of State.
WM.
H.
SEWARD,
WAR,
1862.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
(Signed)
By
Secretary
InFtwL
The
Fifth edition.
extracts
is
we omit
it,
lamation.
to,
itself to
broadside was printed in Bowling Green, Missouri, or Bowling Green, Kentucky. Dr. Warren
acquired it in Kentucky. The paper was probably a soldiers' publication.
[FORBES,
6.
[copies:] IHi,
MWA
is
more
likely.
giving merely the words of the ProcI have not located copies
Printer.] "
of the newspaper
NO.
ber, 1862]
the
Green, October
[copy:]
J.
M.
(?)
NO.
7.
[FORBES,
J.
M.
- MINIATURE
PAMPHLET]
[wrapper
on
title
light
brown paper:]
- BROADSIDE]
(?)
1st,
1863
[enclosed
STATES.
STATES:
E PLURIBUS
beak, reading:]
ft
Abraham
/ I,
States,
By the
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
President:
WM.
SECRETARY OF STATE.
H.
SEWARD,
[thin double
rule] /SLAVERY THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE. / "This stone (slavery), which was
rejected by the
first
builders,
is
become the
new edifice."
March
21,
86 1
A PROCLAMATION.
ft ft
UNUM ft ft A PROCLAMATION.
I
1862]
[copies:]
GEU,
26
IHi, InFtwL,
MHi, RPB,
THaroL, Eberstadt
Seventh edition.
The
is
and is listed by Monaghan, No. 147. The back wrapper contains the
quotation from the speech by Alexander H.
the last edition of 1862
Stephens ("Vice President of the so-called Confederate States") under the caption "SLAVERY
significance.
December,
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
the edition said to have been published by Forbes and distributed by him in one
million copies [ ] to the soldiers and Negroes.
The following (with certain obvious inaccura-
This
is
FINAL PROCLAMATION
(EDITIONS PRINTED IN JANUARY,
1863)
cies)
NO.
slips,
each,
and distributed
Xmas
of our
Day, 1862.
[61 lines]
have hereunto
my
In witness whereof,
set
States to
dred and
He seemed much
/ sixty-three,
and
be employed elsewhere.
THE
BY
anions: the
"Washington,
CAPTION-TITLE]
on small
[Emancipation Proclamation
Emancipation Proclamation.
With
into packages of
8.
of the independ-
the eighty-seventh.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
dent:
By
the Presi-
of State. I
2 -page
ington:
in
earnest.
January
Government Printing
1,
Office, circa
1863]
[copy:] Eberstadt
First edition.
lar to that
set
up
at the
'Ever yours,
CHARLES SUMNER
It
local newspress
tion"
27
and
illustration.)
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
NO.
[ILLINOIS
WILLIAM
H.
SEWARD,
Secretary
of
State. I
IMPORTANT
JAN.
1863.
2,
[rule]
LINCOLN.
[short rule]
The
January
Slaves of
[copies:]
Louisiana, Missis-
3,
CSmH
Office,
1863]
(3),
DLC
RPB, Rosen-
(2),
bach
sippi,
WASHINGTON,
the
2d
United
/
States of
President:
of State.
i.
America
Whereas, on
(Signed)
Jan.
[short rule]
the eighty-seventh.
WM.
H.
SEWARD,
Secretary
January
2,
[copy:]
IHi
ends: "eight
reads:
No.
to
[Springfield,
NO.
11.
2.
(See p. 325.)
1863]
10.
ponds
6i/ inches,
Broadside, 9 7/g by
NO.
Third edition. This is the official State Department folio. Neither of the Library of Congress
[OFFICIAL STATE
DEPARTMENT
FOLIO]
MATION. /
WHEREAS,
Done
at the city of
Washington
[47 lines]
this first
day
Lord one /
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and
of the Independence of the United States /
of America the eighty-seventh. / ABRAHAM
LINCOLN. / By the President: / WILLIAM
H. SEWARD, Secretary of State. /
of January, in the year of our
dated
letter
[copies:]
January 5, 1863]
DNA
copy
is
com-
The proclamation,
%
the 22nd day of September, in the year of our Lord, 1S62, a proclamation was issued by the
Whsbbas, On
among
"That on
the
lBt
in the year of
day of January,
thousand
hundred and
eight
sixty
three,
all
within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then he in re-
United States, shall be henceforth and forever FREE and the Executive Government
United States, including the Military and Naval authorities thereof, Will recognize and maintain the
freedom of Buch persons, and will do no aot or acts to repress suoh persons, or any of them in any effort they may
bellion against the
of the
actual freedom; that the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, issue a proclamation
States and parts Of States, if any, in which the people therein, respectively, shall then be
in rebellion against the United States and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be,
in good faith, represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto, at elections wherein
n majority of the qualified voters of such States shall have participated, shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State and the people thereof, are not in re-
make
for their
designating the
bellion
against the
Now, therefore,
virtue of the
power
in
bellion against
United
I,
States."
ABRAHAM
me
LINCOLN, PRESIDENT Of
Government of the
United
States,
THOUSAND
time of
as a
the
Parishes of
St.
actual
armed remeasure
fit
in
this
in
full
period of
United
States,
the
following,
to-wit:
John,
St.
above mentioned
first
order, designate as the States and parts of States therein, the people whereof respectively
against
UNITED STATES, by
the
in a
do, on
FIRST DAY of JANUARY, the year of our Lord ONE
HUNDRED and SIXTY-THREE, and accordance with my purpose SO
to dO,
Charles,
St.
except the
Martin, and Orleans, including the city of New Orleans; MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA, FLORIDA, CEORCIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, NORTH CAROLINA, and VIRCINIA,
La Fourche, St Mary, St
West
Accomac, Northampton,
Elizabeth City, York, Princess Anne, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth
parts are for the present left precisely as if this proclamation
were not
DO ORDER
that
purpose aforesaid, I
and
DECLARE,
And by
virtue of the
which excepted
power and
for the
United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize
freedom of the said persons and I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to
Government of the
utive
and
issued.
maintain
the
they
of
all
LABOR FAITHFULLY
all
for
Self-defence, and
recommend to them
REASONABLE WACES;
and
that,
And upon this, sincerely believed to be an AN ACT OF JUSTICE, WARRANTED by the CONSTITUTION, upon military necessity, I invoke the CONSIDERATE judgment of MANKIND and the GRACIOUS
EIGHTY -SEVENTH.
ABRAHAM
(Signed)
By
Wm.
the President
LINCOLN.
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EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
which appears on page
three,
is
quite similar to
Fifth edition. Until the present writing, this edition has generally been regarded as the first. It
corresponds to No.
4.
(See p. 325.)
"thence-"; line 13, "desig-"; line 32, "desig-"; and line 46, 'Constitu-". This edition has
line
NO.
8,
13.
4]
P- 325-)
12.
ment of
1]
the officers
is
and others
of the
Naval
Service.
1863.
The
President
is
and government
of the
information
Army and
all
con-
cerned:
on the
Done at
Washington this
first day of January, in the year / of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three,
and / of the Independence of the United
States of America the / eighty-seventh. /
/
in the year of
the city of
[63 lines]
eighty-seventh.
PROCLAMATION. / WHEREAS,
of
WILLIAM
H.
SEWARD,
Secretary of
State. /
2 pp., 73^ by 45/8 inches, [Washington: Government Printing Office, circa January 17,
1863]
[copies:
SEWARD, Secretary of
State. I BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY
OF WAR: / L. THOMAS, / Adjutant Gen/
eral. I
H.
OFFICIAL:
Adjutant General.
[blank space]
327-)
Assistant
NO.
ernment Printing
Office, circa
January
7,
1863]
14.
(2), Streeter,
and
others.
of the
M.
(?)
- BROADSIDE]
thereof, do hereby /
including both the preliminary
proclamations, separated by a filet]
[72
lines,
and
final
31
J.
[FORBES,
(Signed)
[printed name:]
ABRAHAM
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
LINCOLN. / By the President. / WM. H.
SEWARD, SECRETARY OF STATE. /
[long doublerule] SLAVERY, THECHIEF
CORNER-STONE. / "This stone, (Slavery,)
which was rejected by the first builders, is
become the chief / stone of the corner in our
new edifice. Speech of Alex H. Stephens,
Vice President of the so-called Confederate
States; delivered
March
21, 1861.
on paper wrappers,
CSmH,
IHi,
January
3^
by 214
20, 1863]
MHi
The quotation
on the front wrapper appears on the back wrapper of the comparable miniature pamphlet edition of the preliminary proclamation (No.
On
[copies:
8 pp., title
7).
is
p. 328.)
Seventh edition. Corresponds to No. 6, but includes the text of both proclamations. Carries
the Stephens quotation that appeared on No.
6 and on the Forbes miniature pamphlet editions (Nos. 7 and 15). The quotation in this case
has no closing quotation marks; has a capital
"S" in "Slavery"; and the date "1861" rather
than '"61."
NO.
15.
THE GULF,
[FORBES,
M.
J.
(?)
862
[ 1
863 ]
New
1863
- MINIATURE
PAMPHLET]
12]
NO.
16.
States,
dated January
1,
proclamation text on
pp. 2-3:]
[wrapper-title on light-brown paper :] PROC-
LAMATION
the
of
EMANCIPATION
by
JANU-
ARY 1st, 1863. / [short thin rule] / SLAVERY THE CHIEF CORNER-STONE. /
"This stone
by the
(slavery,)
builders,
first
of the so called
ered March
BY
rejected
Confederate
31, '61. /
States, deliv-
be-
is
Speech of Alex. H.
which was
September, in the year of our Lord one thou[54 lines] / of the United States the
LINeighty-seventh. / [L.S.]
sand
ABRAHAM
COLN. / By
/ WILLIAM H.
SEWARD, Secretary of State. /
the President:
[caption-
[copies:]
A
32
procla-
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
FINAL PROCLAMATION
(FEBRUARY, 1863 - DECEMBER,
NO.
17.
[copies:] IHi,
1865)
FOOTNOTE]
EMANCIPATION / PROCLAMATION.
/ WHEREAS, On the 22nd day of Septem-
NO.
among
ing,
President
colors]
EIGHTY-SEVENTH. /
wit: / [41
(Signed) ABRAHAM LINCOLN. / By the
President: / WM. H. SEWARD, Secretary of
lines]
State.
antislavery
States, /
[BUTLER,
Lincoln's
Lincoln,
F. S.]
[American
/
/
RUFUS BLANCH-
in Chief of the
stitution, /
upon
military necessity,
type
Aged
tered
The background is
white
14 years.
.
invoke
mankind and
Almighty God
is
me vested /
Army and /
/ I
4-
The
flag in
Proclamation.
Commander
as
19.
Emancipation
Abraham
[seven lines of
MiU-C
S.
Printed by L. Nagel.
Northern District
Exe-
Butler, 1864.
S.
En-
Butler, in the
of California.
stars,
[copies:]
illustration.)
1930
18.
PROCLAMATION
TION
of
[same
OF
as above,
Abraham
Lincoln;
it
EMANCIPA-
could have been executed by a fourteen-yearold boy. Benjamin F. Butler, who was a Califor-
Freedom
it
33
most
effective
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
manner. NHi has, besides its original copy, an
early photograph of this edition, measuring 6^3
tinted margin),
[New York:
C. A. Alvord,
printer, 1864]
MB, MH(2),
MWA, MiU-C, NHi, NN(2), OClWHi, PPL,
CsmH, DLC,
[copies:]
NO.
20.
[De
FOREST, RICHARD]
IHi,
RPB
Proclamation of Freedom.
[heavy rule]
1864;
of the
America the
seventh.
ABRAHAM
W.
Roberts, Del.
THaroL
[copy:]
NO.
Enclosed within pink-tinted borders of ornamental type, below which appears the imprint.
NO.
21.
[DIMMICK, R.
A.]
surrounded by eagle,
flags, portrait of Lincoln, and dates 1861 and
1863] / By the President of the United States
of America. / Whereas, On the Twenty[in streamers
among
seventh.
By
William H. Seward
Broadside,
2 2 14
seventh.
/
By
[facsimile signature:
the President.
A. Lincoln
[facsimile signature:]
Secretary of State,
[facsimile signature:]
Secretary of State.
1865]
the President.
William H. Seward
[in streamers
[FOSTER, JOHN]
surrounded by eagle,
flags, portrait of Lincoln, and dates 1861 and
1 863
By the President of the United States
] /
of America. / Whereas, On the TwentySecond day of September, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
PROCLAMATION OF EMANCIPA/
22.
PROCLAMATION OF EMANCIPATION
York,
New
dom
TION
sc.
[81 lines
United States of
in double-column]
eighty-
Copyrighted by R. A. Dimmick in
by 1714 inches
(to
end of
34
[copy:]
DLC
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
identical with the 1864 edition of R. A.
Dimmick (No. 2 1) except that it is not tinted, is
This
is
in the
is
name
of
R. A. Dimmick.
NO.
23.
[HAYNES,
A.
A. Lincoln.
J.]
northern
district of Illinois.
Broadside, 3 14 by
1,
[facsimile signature:]
2 1/3
InFtwL
[copy:]
2 2d
President
[35 lines]
and
sixty-three,
and
This
is
the
first
New York,
edi-
1864
a copy.
of the
WILLIAM
H.
SEWARD.
Secretary of
State. /
NO.
25.
[KIDDER,
A.
N.
Y.,
1864
MINIATURE]
1864]
HAM
[copy:]
Newburyport."
24.
/ LINCOLN
/ PRESIDENT OF
UNITED
THE
STATES / BY / VIRTUE
OF THE POWER / IN ME VESTED
AS / COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE
ARMY AND NAVY / in a time of actual
[KIDDER,
1863
sing
A. - CHICAGO,
MINIATURE]
HAM
[32 lines]
of the
United
Broadside,
LINCOLN / PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES / BY / VIRTUE
OF THE POWER / IN ME VESTED
AS / COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE
ARMY AND NAVY / in a time of actual
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EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
Copyright by Kidder in the Southern District
of New York in 1864. This is a beautiful engraved miniature, hot-pressed on cardboard.
The portrait is especially fine; it measures 5/8 by
1/2
inch.
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NO.
[KIDDER,
26.
Proclamation of
TION
ber in
- CHICAGO,
A.
[eagle] /
1864
ENGR.]
Whereas On the 22d day of Septemthe year of our Lord 1862 a PROCLA-
of
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Chicago
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by A. Kidder in the
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...
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the portrait shows a receding hairline extending
NO.
27.
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Proclamation of
TION
A.
[36 lines]
[eagle] /
/
six vignette
Lincoln in
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A.
The same
N.
1864
Y.,
ENGR.]
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1864
LITHO.]
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[KIDDER,
29.
1864]
NO.
EMANCIPA-
[New York,
[copies:]
Apr
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There are
script.
to wit: ... /
mainly in
is
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text
[32 lines]
Shober, 1864]
EMANCIPA-
A.
The same
- CHICAGO,
1865
ENGR.]
been changed,
36
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
is in bold sans-serif type. The proofreader has marked this line: "Keep the old heading on the 1st proof," indicating that there had
been an earlier proof which has not come to
light. All other proof-reader's marks are for
wider spacing except for two: one of these calls
attention to a piece of lead to be removed and
the other calls for a filet to be inserted between
the caption title and the text. These corrections
were made on the third proof which has the
trict of Illinois. /
The
caption-title
Original picture of
Abraham
sented to
S.
Illinois."
heading in Gothic
it
is
coarse paper
and marked
The
known copy
of this third
NO.
30.
identical with
is
only
NO.
and
first
on ordinary
"Proof."
DLC, InFtwL
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letter
[LELAND-BOKER PROOFS]
31.
Proclamation of Emancipation
BY
THE
containing,
Whereas,
States, containing,
Done
at the
this first
United
among
/
By
[blank space]
gins),
15,
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(2),
May
the President.
May
20, 1864]
By
Secretary of State.
the President.
margins),
Broadside, 171^ by
Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree, and the Indepen- / dence of the United
States the eighty-seventh.
CITY OF WASHINGTON,
other
[46 lines]
among
Leypoldt,
Scribner(2),Streeter;
Duschnesand New-
circa
1864]
PU
and the "trial iswas the subject of an article by Randolph G. Adams in the Rosenbach birthday
volume, To Dr. R. (Philadelphia, 1946) and
37
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
has been reproduced along with the LelandBoker autographed edition in The Quarto, no.
13, Jany., 1947.
Both of
State. / [signed:]
1864]
printed on June
number printed,
6,
this
is
"collect-
contemporary editions. Of the twentyfour copies, twelve evidently went to Boker, but
have been lost or destroyed. Leland's twelve
ible" of
mark.
Textually the two Leland-Boker editions show
two major differences: the first edition has "City
of Orleans" instead of "City of New Orleans"
and "In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my name" instead of "In witness whereof I have
hereunto set my hand." (For the origin of this
latter variation see page 322.) Typographically
the differences are numerous, the present edition making free use of ornamental type-faces in
all-caps for emphasis. (See illustration.)
NO.
32.
part of the
Red
the United
/ States,
containing,
among other
[48 lines]
Abraham Lincoln
/
[signed:]
Secretary of State.
(November 9-19,
Fair
[signed: ]
William H.
I forgot.)
He
Seward
Lord one
thou-
New-
Philadelphia:
[LELAND-BOKER AUTOGRAPHED
EDITION]
/ [filet]
[copies:]
true copy,
38
Fair, for
8, p. 60, col. 3,
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
proof corrected for the especial purpose at the
State Department in Washington. It was signed
by the President and others, that it might be
disposed of for the benefit of those
fighting for their country.
who
are
now
34.
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Facsimile
tion
of the
NO.
Fair;
11, 1864."
beneath which,
at the left
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is
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The
flag.]
Soldiers'
my / Wounded Heroes. /
fort
and Care,
By
America:
for
Proclamation.
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NO.
33.
[Spread eagle]
EMANCIPATION
dred and
[fig-
right]
ture:]
is
Lincoln
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all
which
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my
have
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United
of the
of the
hereunto
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ures of Justice
a slavery
Seward,
William H.
Every genuine
[facsimile signature:]
/
Secretary of State
seal attached
[embossed
immediately hereunder.
InFtwL, Eberstadt
[copies:]
Thos B.
Home,
Chicago, Illinois. / [Countersigned:] Henry
W. Bellows, President U. S. Sanitary ComEmancipation Proclamation
39
steel
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
mission.
Northern
District of
Illinois. /
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18^ by
ders), [Chicago:
(See illustration.)
35.
37.
[MENDEL - VERTICAL
LITHOGRAPH]
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eight
LINCOLN
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signature,
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[MENDEL - HORIZONTAL]
among
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two
rule,
first
day
Lord one
hundred
and
sixty-three,
/
and of the In- / dependence of the United
States of America / the eighty-seventh. /
ABRAHAM LINCOLN. / By the President
WILLIAM H. SEWARD, / Secretary of
/
eight
36.
/WHERE-
sixty-two, a Proclama-
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40
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
when the word "testimony" is
word "name" follows; or if the word
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other editions
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MB
NO.
[PAINE,
38.
JOSEPH
E.]
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41
THaroL
NO.
1864
1864]
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/ A PROCLAMATION
8 pp., 45/3
steel
Brooklyn, N. Y.
BD'WAY
BY
/
Secretary of State.
PROCLA-
PRESIDENT / OF
STATES OF AMER-
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H. Seward,
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be
States to
39.
40.
& Company
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OVAL BORDER]
[PRATT, W. H.
Whereas /
September in
Proclamation of Emancipation.
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
/ and sixty two a Proclamation was
by the President of the United States,
hundred
issued
contai- / ning
ing to wit:
Washington
day of January
the year of our Lord One thousand eigof
this first
in
ht
hundred and sixty three & of the in- / dependence of the U. S. of Ame- / rica the 87th.
/ Designed and written by W. H. Pratt, Davenport, Iowa / Lith. by A. Hageboeck, Davenport, Iowa. /
H. PRATT in the
Dist. of Iowa.
W.
[Davenport, 1865]
[copies:]
CSmH, DLC,
IHi, InFtwL,
MB,
Meserve No.
87,
NO.
42.
[PRATT, W. H.
- NAMES
IN BORDER]
Proclamation of Emancipation.
Members
of Congress
Constitution of the
who
resolution to submit to
Names
of
the Legislatures of
Amendment
to the
[The
name
COLN.
at
bottom:]
and have
LIN-
ABRAHAM
Broadside, 1814 by
after
the
An
14^
inches (including
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dis-
NO.
NO.
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[PRATT, W. H.
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Nach dem
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/
SEALS]
[same
as
Vereinigten Staa-
LINCOLN.
[PRATT, W. H.
Proclamation of Emancipation.
TRANSLATION]
Emancipations Proklamation.
43.
State seals]
cation co.
Davenport,
la.,
Western publi-
Broadside,
27%
by
[copy:]
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InU,
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42
TX hcrrao. On
the Twenty-Second
day of September,
in tho
sand eight hundred and sixty-two, a Proclamation was issued by the President of the United
States, containing,
and sixty-three,
persons held as Slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the
all
people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforth,
and FOREVER FREE, and the executive government of the united states, including the military
and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and
will
efforts
they
may make
will,
on the
first
the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in
United States, and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that
day be
good
in
thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such State shall have participated, shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be
that such State and the people thereof are not then in rebellion against the United States."
gow
power
therefore,
me
in
I,
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
time of actual armed Rebellion against the authority and government of the United States,
and as a
fit
on
this first
day of
January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with
the
my
day of the
first
full
day
mines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James, Ascension, Assumption, Terre Bonne,
La
Fourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the City of Orleans,) Mississippi, Ala-
bama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia (except the forty-eight
counties designated as
ton, Elizabeth City,
West
Accomac, Northamp-
cities of
Proclamation
And by
virtue of the
power and
AIL PERSONS HELD AS SLAVES, within said designated States and parts of States ARE, and hence-
forward
SHALL BE FREE!
ing the Military and Naval Authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of
said persons.
And
free, to abstain
all
from
cases,
all violence,
when
allowed,
And
other places,
armed
make known
and
this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constiupon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind, and the gracious
favor of Almighty God.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name, and caused the seal of the United
And upon
tution,
States to be affixed.
Done
[L. S.]
day of January,
Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-seventh.
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NO.
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NO.
B. B.]
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45.
GILMAN
R.]
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peace]
ing, to wit:
therefore, I
In Testimony
my name, and
Whereof, / have hereunto
caused the seal of the United States to be afDone
TON,
at the
CITY OF WASHING-
this first
[facsimile signature:]
By
Now
President of
day
of January, in
of our
1863.
the United
[dove of
1st
ny
whereof I have hereunto / set my name / and
caused the seal of / the United / States to be
affixed. / Done at the / City of Washington /
set
fixed. I
Abraham Lincoln
the United
[26 lines]
among
flags]
JANUARY
containing,
ISSUED
/ [fac-
ham
the Presi-
William H.
the
ORIGINAL
THE
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gins), [Philadelphia:
[copies:]
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1870), p.
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EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
NO.
[SEBALD,
46.
[and] A. Lincoln.
H.]
16 portraits of national
/
scenes, four on each side] / MAX ROSENTHE / EMANCIPATION / PROCLAMA- THAL, DEL.&LITH. L. N. ROSENTHAL
United
other things,
among
States, containing,
[74
lines of text in
thin rule]
the
/ first
Lev.
eighty-
Proclaim Liberty
Land
/
unto
/ all
the
throughout
Inhabitants
all /
the
thereof.
BALD, ENG.
LITH, No.
327
WALNUT ST.
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copyright
in Smith's
is
is
describing
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PHILA.
it
in detail.
The
this edition
and
1864]
DLC
[copy:]
NO.
NO.
LIBERTY
traits of
47.
[SMITH,
L.
FRANKLIN]
PROCLAMATION OF
EMANCIPATION
Whereas,
On
the
UNITED STATES
the eighty-seventh.
[facsimile signatures:]
E PLURIBUS
in the center]
48.
William H. Seward
48
1862
UNUM
January
Proclamation.
/ I
1st
1863
September 22d
Emancipation
Abraham Lincoln
/ Presi-
America and
[68 lines]
/ I have hereunto
Caused the seal of the
United States / to be affixed. Done at the
City of Washington this first day of January
in the / year of our Lord One thousand Eight
set
my hand and
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
of State
[facsimile signature:]
[facsimile signature:]
Allegorical Portrait of
COLN.
among
wit:
A Lincoln /
William H. Seward
ABRAHAM
LIN-
&
Co. in the
Union
Eastern Dist. of
2ii/
Broadside,
by
inches
1614
In witness whereof
be
affixed. /
have
the seal
Done
/ first
at
day
Bishop
States, contain-
[72 lines in
set
United
lishers /
United
of the
& Co.
hereunto
issued by
by thin rule]
was
sixty-two, a proclamation
hundred and sixty three and / of the Independence of the United States of America
the / Eighty Seventh. By the President Abraham Lincoln / William H. Seward Secretary
tants
thereof. / Lev.
XXV v.x.
Publ. by
"FREE
W.
PRESS" 418 North Fourth Str. Philada. /
on Stone by L. Haugg 600 Chestnut Str.
Thomas, Publisher of the
F.
(within
[Philadelphia:
Philadel.
Duval, 1865]
[copies:]
NN, RPB
1863]
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Eberstadt
One
The
and
litho-
is
initial capital
"W"
NO.
49.
[THOMAS,
F.
W.]
NO.
50.
[THOMAS,
F.
W.
- GERMAN
TRANSLATION]
/
TION.
left
[allegorical figures
and right]
second day
/
on
pedestals at
our
and
49
TION.
In Anbetracht, dass
zwanzigsten Septem-
am
zwei
und
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
/
sten Jahre.
F.
Phila.
Entered
THOMAS,
W.
Penn'a.
The
"New
NO.
52.
Proclamation
[copies:]
CSmH, IHi
By
[UNKNOWN PUBLISHER]
/
of
Emancipation.
Whereas,
On
the Twenty-second
United
51.
[UNKNOWN PUBLISHER]
Proclamation of Emancipation.
ica /
/By
Amer-
and
amongother
[32 lines]
By
[name
A. Lincoln.
script type:]
William H. Seward,
[name in
Secretary
of State. I
[copies:]
[up-
been
[copy:]
DLC
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The
in script type:]
the President,
the eighty-seventh.
inches
that has
1865]
is all
preserved.]
/ [filet]
among
States, / containing,
/ [filet] /
nature.
America.
portrait
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