Lincoln, Abraham. Draft of the Emancipation Proclamation
22 July 1862, manuscript. Abraham Lincoln Papers, 1 March 2002.
American Memory. Library of Congress. 24 January 2009 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/almss/dep001.html Draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, by President Abraham Lincoln, July 22, 1862. Abraham Lincoln, Preliminary Draft, [July 22, 1862] In pursuance of the sixth section of the act of Congress entitled “An Act to suppress the insurrection and to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate property of rebels, and for other purposes” Approved July 17, 1862, and which Act, and the Joint Resolution explanitory (sic) thereof, are herewith published, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby proclaim to, and warn all persons within the contemplation of said sixth section to cease participating in, aiding, countenancing, or abetting the existing rebellion, or any rebellion against the government of the United States, and to return to their proper allegiance to the United States, on pain of the forfeiture and seizure, as within and by said sixth section provided. And I hereby make known that it is my purpose, upon the next meeting of Congress, to again recommend the adoption of a practical measure for tendering pecuniary aid to the free choice or rejection, of any and all States, which may then be recognizing and practically sustaining the authority of the United States, and which may then have voluntarily adopted, or therefore may voluntarily adopt, gradual adoption abolishment of slavery within such State or States—that the object is to practically restore, thenceforward to <be> maintain, the constitutional relation between the general government over each, and all of the States, wherein that relation…
TRANSCRIPTION (Page 2) Draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, by President Abraham Lincoln, July 22, 1862. Abraham Lincoln, Preliminary Draft, [July 22, 1862] …is now suspended, or disturbed; and that, for this object,
the war, as it has been, will be, prosecuted. And, as a fit and
necessary military measure for effecting this object, I, as Commander-in-Chief
of the Army and Navy of the United States, do order and declare
that on the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand,
eight hundred and sixtythree, all persons held as slaves within
any state or states, wherein the constitutional authority of the
United States shall not then be practically recognized, submitted
to, and maintained, shall then, thenceforward, and forever, be free. |
