Abraham Lincoln: a Paper Read Before the Royal Historical Society, London, June 16th, 1881
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McAllister; the sinking of the Alabama; the taking of Mobile, by Farragut; the occupation of Col- umbus, Charlestown, Savannah; the evacuation of Peters- burg and Richmond; the surrender of Lee to Grant; the taking of Jefferson Davis a prisoner; the triumph every- where of the National Arms ; such were the events which followed (though with delays and bloodshed) the "Procla- mation of Emancipation." THE AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION. Meanwhile Lincoln had been triumphantly reelected. Congress h...ad, as before stated, abolished slavery at the Capital, prohibited it in all the territories, declared all negro soldiers in the Union armies, and their families free, and had repealed all laws which sanctioned or recognized slavery, and the President had crowned and consummated all, by the proclamation of emancipation. One thing alone remained to perfect, confirm, and make everlastingly permanent these measures, and this was to embody in the Constitution itself, the prohibition of slavery everywhere within the Republic.
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