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Title: Life of Abraham Lincoln, illustrated : a biographical sketch of President Lincoln taken from Abbott's "Lives of the Presidents," and containing sixty half-tone illustrations and portraits
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot), 1805-1877
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: Chicago : Illustrated Booklet Company
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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es out ofWashington. Here I finished writing the seconddraft of the preliminary proclamation; came upon Saturday; called the Cabinet together to hearit; and it was published the following jMonday. At this final meeting, which took place on the20th of September, as Mr. Lincoln read the words.And the executive government of the UnitedStates, including the military and naval authoritythereof, will recognize the freedom of such per-sons, Mr. Seward interrupted him, saying,— I think, Mr. President, that you should insertafter the word recognize, m that sentence, thewords and maintain. The President replied, that he had alreadyconsidered the import of that expression in thathe had refrained from inserting it, as he did notlike to promise that which he was not sure thathe could perform. But Mr. Seward, said thePresident, insisted; and the words went in.It so happened that there were just one hundreddays between the preliminary proclamation whichwas issued on the 22d of September, 1852, and
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WATCHING AT THE BEDSIDE OF THE DYING PRESIDENT ABRAHA^I LINCOLN 119 the hnal proclamation which consummated theact of emancipation. On the 1st of January, 1863, the final procla-mation was issued. In his preamble, he alluded tohis previous proclamation of promise, and thensaid, Now, therefore, I Abraham Lincoln, Pres-ident of the United States, by virtue of the powerin me invested as commander-in-chief of thearmy and navy of the United States, in time ofactual armed rebellion against the authority andgovernment of the United States, and as a fit andnecessary war measure for suppressing said rebel-lion, do, on this first day of January, in the yearof our Lord one thousand eight hundred andsixty-three, and in accordance with my purposeso to do. publicly proclaimed for the full periodof one hundred days from the day first abovementioned, order and designate as the States, andparts of States, wherein the people thereof re-spectively are this day in rebellion against theL^nited States, the

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