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Library of Congress1863

By the president of the United States of America. A proclamation : Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued ... Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested ... do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated states and parts of states are and henceforward shall be free ... Done at the city of Washington this first day of January ... one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three

"Third edition. This is the official State Department folio. Printed ... circa January 3, 1863"--Cf. Eberstadt, C. Lincoln's Proclamation, 1950, page 28.

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Library of Congress1864

Union ticket [First District, California] : For President, Abraham Lincoln of Illinois. For Vice-President, Andrew Johnson of Tennessee ... for Member of Congress, First District, Donald C. McRuer of San Francisco

LAC nsk 2021-07-13 create (1 card) Item previously identified as Stern broadside portfolio 9 no. 24 - mvar 2025-1-6 On verso : woodcut engraving of naval battle between the Alabama and the Kearsarge, with the Deerhound in the background. Also available in digital form.

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Library of Congress1886

In the Senate of the United States. June 30, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Blair, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 2005, returned by the President with his objections thereto.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the message of the President returning Senate Bill 2005, granting pension to Mary J. Nottage, widow of Thomas Nottage, late a sergeant of Company F, Third New Hampshire Volunteers, with the Executive disapproval, have considered the same, and have re-examined and reconsidered the evidence in support of the claim of this soldier's widow for a pension

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Library of Congress1886

In the Senate of the United States. July 27, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Sewell, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 1850, and the veto message of the President thereto.) The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the message of the President of the United States, returning the Bill (S. 1850) granting a pension to Mrs. Annie C. Owens, have examined the same, and report as follows

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Library of Congress1862

In the Senate of the United States. February 20, 1862. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Wilkinson submitted the following resolution; which was considered by unanimous consent, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Resolution. Whereas Lazarus W. Powell, a Senator from the State of Kentucky, after eleven states had published their ordinances of secession, by which to sever themselves from the government of the United States, had formed a confederation and provisional government, and made war upon the United States, did, on the 20th day of June last, at the City of Henderson, in the State of Kentucky, attend a large southern state's rights convention, over which he was called to and did preside; and, on taking his seat as president thereof, made a speech, in which he stated the object of said convention, and then appointed a committee, which reported to said convention a long series of resolutions that were unanimously adopted by it. Among those resolutions are the following

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Library of Congress1857

Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with the resolutions of the Senate of the 16th and 18th instants, correspondence between the executive department and the present Governor of Kansas, and between the executive and any governor or other officer of the government in Kansas, with any orders or instructions which may have been issued, together with other information relative to affairs in that territory. December 23, 1857. -- Read, and ordered to lie on the table and be printed

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