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Title: Complete works of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901, ed Hay, John, 1838-1905, joint ed Gilder, Richard Watson, 1844-1909 Fish, Daniel, 1848-1924
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: New York : F.D. Tandy Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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-course, April 2, 1863 By the President of the United States ofAmerica: A Proclamation. WHEREAS, in pursuance of the act ofCongress approved July 13, 1861, Idid, by proclamation dated August16, 1861, declare that the inhabitants of theStates of Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia,North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louis-iana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Florida(except the inhabitants of that part of Virginialying west of the Alleghany Mountains, and ofsuch other parts of that State and the otherStates hereinbefore named as might maintain alegal adhesion to the Union and the Constitution,or might be from time to time occupied and con-trolled by forces of the United States engagedin the dispersion of said insurgents) were in astate of insurrection against the United States,and that all commercial intercourse between thesame, and the inhabitants thereof, with the ex-ceptions aforesaid, and the citizens of other Gateway to Gettysburg CemeteryFrom an Original Photograph taken in 1865.
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1863) Proclamation 241 States and other parts of the United States, wasunlawful, and would remain unlawful until suchinsurrection should cease or be suppressed; andthat all goods and chattels, wares and merchan-dise, coming from any of said States, with theexceptions aforesaid, into other parts of theUnited States, without the license and permis-sion of the President through the Secretary ofthe Treasury, or proceeding to any of said States,with the exceptions aforesaid, by land or water,together with the vessel or vehicle conveying thesame to or from said States, with the exceptionsaforesaid, would be forfeited to the UnitedStates: And whereas, experience has shown that theexceptions made in and by said proclamationembarrass the due enforcement of said act ofJuly 13, 1861, and the proper regulation of thecommercial intercourse authorized by said actwith the loyal citizens of said States: Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, Presi-dent of the United States, do hereby revoke thesaid exce

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