Posted on 01/09/2006 4:31:12 AM PST by OXENinFLA
That may very well be true...With that being said, I'm just as interested in preserving the freedoms of this nations as others are.
LOL!
1864
By the President of the United States of America:
A PROCLAMATION
Whereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit:
"That on the 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.
"That the executive will on the 1st day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof, respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such States shall have participated shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State and the people thereof are not then in rebellion against the United States."
Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-In-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for supressing said rebellion, do, on this 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days from the first day above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States the following, to wit:
Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St. Bernard, Palquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James, Ascension, Assumption, Terrebone, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the city of New Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Morthhampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Anne, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth), and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued.
And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be, free; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.
And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence; and I recommend to them that, in all case when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages.
And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.
And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
I'm a designer... color is my business.
The morons in Massachusetts will re-elect Kennedy & Kerry no matter what they say or do.
Oh I didn't take it any other way.
ARG!
That's why I'm waiting until TOMORROW to watch the hearings. :)
:-) Thanks for that post.
Senator Cornyn called a spade a spade. Boy he continued to hit'em out of the park. He said all my thoughts to a tee. Thank God for this great conservative Senator...and on top of that he's my senator.
But you missed Coburn and Brownback. They were amazing. Coburn almost had me in tears.
Thanks for the spelling lesson.
My fast tyoing hunt and peck fingleros jost make those kind of mistakes.
Wish Jim would put these names in the spell checker.
The more that I hear from this man the more I think he might make a Presidential candidate for the Republicans.
I certainly would support him with my dollars and few cents.
I am wondering myself why I still have CSPAN on.... listening to the press corpses yammer on and on about Cheney's secret foot conditions!
YW.
:)
Thank you for posting the info. All is said and done, and we just go from there...
Seriously...........I can't tolerate leftist bloviating. My TV wouldn't have survived the day.
Psssst, MSM guys................I think it's called 'arthritis'........
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