Abraham Lincoln : a history : the full and authorized record of his private life and public career . n andenforcement. Reciting the disturbed condition ofsociety, and defining the boundaries of army occupa-tion, it contained the following important decrees: Circumstances, in my judgment of sufficient urgency,render it necessary that the commanding general of thisdepartment should assume the administrative powers ofthe State. . In order, therefore, to suppress disorder, tomaintain as far as now practicable the pubhc peace, andto give security and protection to the persons and prop-erty of loyal
Abraham Lincoln : a history : the full and authorized record of his private life and public career . n andenforcement. Reciting the disturbed condition ofsociety, and defining the boundaries of army occupa-tion, it contained the following important decrees: Circumstances, in my judgment of sufficient urgency,render it necessary that the commanding general of thisdepartment should assume the administrative powers ofthe State. . In order, therefore, to suppress disorder, tomaintain as far as now practicable the pubhc peace, andto give security and protection to the persons and prop-erty of loyal citizens, I do hereby extend and declare es-tabhshed martial law throughout the State of All persons who shall be taken with arms in theirhands within these fines shall be tried by court-martial,and if found guilty wfil be shot. The property, real andpersonal, of all persons in the State of Missouri who shaUtake up arms against the United States, or who shaU bedirectly proven to have taken an active part with theirenemies in the field, is declared to be confiscated to the • 416. GENKRAL JOHN C. FRtMOM. MILITARY EMANCIPATION 417 public use, and their slaves, if any they have, are hereby ch. freemen. , The object of this declaration is toplace in the hands of the military authorities the powerto give instantaneous effect to existing laws, and to sup-ply such deficiencies as the conditions of war this is not intended to suspend the ordinary tribunalsof the country, where the law will be administered bythe civil officers in the usual manner, and with theircustomary authority, while the same can be peaceablyexercised. Fremont,Proclama-tion, Aug. 30,1861. W. R. Vol. III., pp. 466, 467. Despite its verbiage and confusion of subjects, itwas apparent that this extraordinary document wasnot a measure of military protection, but a polit-ical manoeuvre. Since the first movement of thearmies the slavery question had become a subjectof new and vital con
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