A new history of the United StatesThe greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . ly watched by theTuscarora that Captain Semmes, her commander, sold her, and made liis way toEngland, where the English built for him the most femous privateer the Con-federacy ever had—the Alabama—of which much more will be told further on. THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. The national government had learned by this time the full measurement THE E3IANCIPATI0N PROCLAMATION. 331 ?of the gigantic task befor
A new history of the United StatesThe greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . ly watched by theTuscarora that Captain Semmes, her commander, sold her, and made liis way toEngland, where the English built for him the most femous privateer the Con-federacy ever had—the Alabama—of which much more will be told further on. THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. The national government had learned by this time the full measurement THE E3IANCIPATI0N PROCLAMATION. 331 ?of the gigantic task before it. By the close of the year, 1,;300,000 volunteershad been called for, and the daily expenses amounted to ^3,000,000. Theconviction, too, was growing that slavery was the real cause of the war, and thetime had come to treat it with less consideration than many leading officers andmen whose j^atriotism could not be doubted were disjwsed to show toward thepeculiar institution. President Lincoln was one of the wisest men who eversat in the executive chair, and none read so unerringly the signs of the times ashe. The Abolitionists were impatient with his slowness, while many of the. UNITED STATES MILITARY TELEGRAPH WAGON. doubting thought he went too fast. He waited until the right hour, and thenissued his Emancijiation Proclamation. This appeared soon after the battle of Antietam, and it is said was the ful-fillment of the pledge President Lincoln had made to heaven that, if Leesinvasion was turned back, he would issue the great paper, which, in eflFect, wouldsee free 4,000,000 bondsmen. In it he warned the seceding States that in everyone wdiich failed to return to its allegiance by the first of January, 1863, hewould declare the slaves free. The warning was received with scorn, as was 332 ADMINISTRATION OF LINCOLN. expected. From the date named, therefore, all the armed forces of the Unionitreated the slaves as free wherever encountered. Before long colored men wereenlist
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