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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book VI:—Virginia. (search)
that had not cherished patriotic but false illusions. President Lincoln simply endorsed this sentiment when on the 22d of September he issued a proclamation, as a war measure, declaring that from the 1st of January, 1863, all slaves residing in theldness which proved successful, but which such a general as Lee would probably have made him pay dear for. On the 22d of September the Federals entered Harper's Ferry without opposition, of which place they were already virtually in possession thondition to take the field when the orders of the President reached him. The fifteen days that had elapsed since the 22d of September had been of more benefit to his adversary than to himself; and having once stopped for the purpose of reconstructinan, have always remained enveloped in mystery. The general order issued by the latter regarding the proclamation of September 22d was dated one month back; his correspondence on the subject of army supplies had closed a fortnight since. His delay
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book VII:—politics. (search)
to the charge of having neglected a powerful means of bringing the war to a close. On the 22d of September, America learned that the President had proclaimed the complete abolition of slavery in allional authority. The confiscation laws should continue to be enforced. The proclamation of September 22d, which was to go into operation on the 1st of January, 1863, was communicated to Congress s practicable. This was the sum total of the propositions contained in the proclamation of September 22d characterizing the policy to be followed by the government in the future. In those States wow more equally balanced in Congress, began contending about the text of the proclamation of September 22d. The Democrats attacked it as unconstitutional in the House of Representatives, where theirothing was left for the President to do but to enforce the measures he had announced on the 22d of September. On the 1st of January, 1863, he affixed his signature to another and final proclamation,