Young folks' history of the United States . COMMODORE FARRAGUT PASSING THE FORTS BELOW NEW ORLEANS. a political event, — the Presidents proclamation forthe emancipation of the slaves. The war had not_been originally waged for the abolition of slavery, butto preserve the Union ; and when Union generals —Fremont, Phelps, and Hunter—had, at different timesand places, undertaken to set slaves free, the Pres-ident had revoked their action, or limited it to the. EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. 305 slaves actually employed against the government. Itproved, at last, necessary to declare freedom to theslave
Young folks' history of the United States . COMMODORE FARRAGUT PASSING THE FORTS BELOW NEW ORLEANS. a political event, — the Presidents proclamation forthe emancipation of the slaves. The war had not_been originally waged for the abolition of slavery, butto preserve the Union ; and when Union generals —Fremont, Phelps, and Hunter—had, at different timesand places, undertaken to set slaves free, the Pres-ident had revoked their action, or limited it to the. EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. 305 slaves actually employed against the government. Itproved, at last, necessary to declare freedom to theslaves ; and on Sept. 22, 1862, President Lincoln issuedthis proclamation : — That on the first day of January, in the year of ourLord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, allpersons held as slaves within any State, or designatedpart of a State, the people whereof shall then be inrebellion against the United States, shall be then,thenceforth, and forever free; and the Executive Gov-ernment of the United States, including the militaryand naval authority thereof, will recognize and main-tain the freedom of such persons, and will do no actor acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in anyeffort they may make for their actual freedom. In his message to Congress the President thus ex-plained this act: — In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedomto the free, honorable alike in what we give and whatwe preserve. We shall nobly save, or me
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