 | 1889 - 1060 pages
...emancipation. Reciting that the Department of the South was under martial law, the order declared, " Slavery and martial law in a free country are altogether incompatible. The persons in these three States — Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina — heretofore held as slaves are therefore declared... | |
 | Jesse Ames Spencer - 1866 - 620 pages
..."slavery and martial law in a free country are altogether incompatible. The persons in these three states, Georgia, Florida and South Carolina, heretofore held as slaves, are therefore declared forever free.'1 Public attention was at once aroused. Hunter's course was applauded by some, und denounced... | |
 | 1862 - 486 pages
...arc hereby declared free men." — Proclamation of August 31, 1861. General Hunter says, briefly : " Slavery and martial law in a free country are altogether incompatible. The persons in these three States, Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina, heretofore held as slaves, are therefore declared... | |
 | 1862 - 412 pages
...necessity to declare them under martial law. This was accordingly done on the 25th day of April, 1862. Slavery and martial law in a free country are altogether incompatible. The persons in these three States — Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina — heretofore held as slaves, are therefore... | |
 | 1862 - 520 pages
...declared I'M men." — Proclamation of August 3 1 , 1 861 . General Hunter says, briefly : " Slaverv and martial law in a free country are altogether incompatible. The persons in these three States, Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina, heretofore held as slave?, are therefore declared... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1863 - 848 pages
...the bal«><» felbhort The rebels could be distinctly l«n carrying off their dead and wounded, the martial law, in a free country, are altogether incompatible. The persons in these three States — Georgia, Florida and South-Carolina — heretofore held as slaves, are therefore declared... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1866 - 842 pages
...necessity to declare them under martial law. "This was accordingly done on the 25th day of April, 1862. +x + ` + This order was rescinded or annulled by President Lincoln, in a Proclamation " which recites it and... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 514 pages
...necessity to declare them under martial law. This was accordingly done on the 25th day of April. 1862. Slavery and martial law in a free country are altogether...The persons in these States — Georgia, Florida, arid South Carolina — heretofore held as slaves, are therefore declared forever free. [OFFICIAL.]... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 492 pages
...SC, May 9, 1862. f General Order, No. 11. This was accordingly done on the 25th day of April, 1862. Slavery and martial law in a free country are altogether incompatible. The persons in these States—Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina—heretofore held as slaves, are therefore declared forever... | |
 | David Brainerd Williamson - 1864 - 210 pages
...to declare them under martial law. This was accordingly done on the twenty-fifth day of April, 1862. Slavery and martial law in a free country are altogether incompatible. The- persons in these three States, Georgia, Florida, and Sonth Carolina, heretofore held as slaves, are therefore declared... | |
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Slavery and martial law in a free country are altogether incompatible; the persons in these three States -Georgia, Florida and South Carolina -heretofore held as slaves, are therefore declared forever free. 
