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Example sentences for "emancipation proclamation"

  • A Fruitless Appeal to the President to issue an Emancipation Proclamation.

  • He thinks the Time not yet come for such an Action, but within a Few Weeks changes his Opinion and issues an Emancipation Proclamation.

  • In his next annual message, however, President Lincoln did not discuss the Emancipation Proclamation, but he renewed his argument for compensated emancipation.

  • See also Dunmore's Emancipation Proclamation issued in November, 1775, in Joseph T.

  • Tennessee; at Mossy Creek Ellsworth Zouaves, equal in drill to West Point cadets, Emancipation Proclamation, how received in McClellan's army.

  • Aside from the cession of land for the accommodation of Indian emigrants, its most important provision was a recognition of the binding force of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

  • Nevertheless, the subject could no more be ignored there than in other States; and after the President's emancipation proclamation an emancipation party developed itself in Maryland.

  • He thought all would bear him witness that he had never shrunk from doing all that he could to eradicate slavery, by issuing an emancipation proclamation.

  • This was no prevision of an emancipation proclamation; but it was assertion of the value of a higher "moral issue.

  • The effect of a full year's penetration in England of Lincoln's emancipation proclamation is shown in the necessity felt by the framers of this constitution to meet that issue.

  • In the midst of his efforts at conciliation, General Fremont startled the country and almost paralyzed the President by issuing an emancipation proclamation and an order that all persons found with arms in their hands should be shot.

  • The next sensation was an emancipation proclamation issued by General David Hunter, who commanded the Department of the South, which declared free all persons held as slaves in the States of Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina.

  • A committee of clergymen from Chicago came to Washington to urge him to issue an emancipation proclamation.

  • He convened a congress, instituted a government, and issued a proclamation abolishing slavery in Venezuela; almost fifty years before the famous Emancipation Proclamation of Lincoln.


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