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Title: America, from discovery in 1942 to the present time
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Boyd, James P(enny) (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Mansfield, Ohio, Estill & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Sept. 22, 1862, the President issued his proclamation tothe effect that he would emancipate all slaves within any Stateor designated parts of a State, the people whereof shall be inrebellion against the United States on the 1st day of January,1863. If such sections are in good faith represented in Con-gress on that day, it shall be deemed conclusive evidence thatsuch State and the people thereof are not in rebellion against theUnited States. No attention was paid to this. It was followed, Jan. i, 1863,by the celebrated Emancipation Proclamation, for which thecountry now seemed ready, as a fit and necessary war measurefor suppressing rebellion. It applied only to the States andportions of States actually in rebellion, and which were unrepre-sented in Congress, or were not in the possession of the Unionarmies. Two years afterwards (February i, 1865) the ThirteenthAmendment to the Constitution passed the Congress, and wasratified by three-fourths of the States, so as to become effective
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584 PRESIDENTS AND*ADMINISTRATIONS. by Dec. l8, 1865. It is in almost the precise words of the hiStoric ordinance of 1787 relative to the territory northwest ofthe Ohio. This amendment ended African slavery in the UnitedStates of America. THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS—YxxsX. Session.—Met Dec.7, 1863. The House organized by electing Schuyler Colfax,Republican, Indiana, Speaker. The Senate contained 36 Re-publicans and 14 Democrats; the House 102 Republicans and83 Democrats. Nine of the latter were from the Border States.The Union Democrats had mostly gone entirely over to theRepublicans. Some, however, had gone back into the regularDemocratic organization, which was now pretty squarely on ananti-war basis. The session was prolific of war measures, onmost of which party lines were strictly drawn. That whichexcited most bitter debate was the repeal of the Fugitive SlaveLaw of 1850 by a vote of 27 to 12 in the Senate, and 86 to 60in the House. The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitutionpass

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