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[CIVIL WAR]. [CONFEDERATE IMPRINTS]. [EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION]. Two printed documents: Joint Resolutions on the pending war, and matters appertaining thereto, 13 January 1863 (P&W529); and Resolutions House of Representatives (C.S.A.), 20 January 1863 (P&W535). Together 13 pp., 8vo, paper wrappers, with "Rebel Archives" stamp by U.S. War Department.
TWO ANGRY CONFEDERATE BLASTS AGAINST THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. The Confederate House of Representatives denounces Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation in these two resolutions. In the first, they declare any sense of kindred nationalism with Northerners to be completely and utterly destroyed. "There is no plan of reconstructing what was formerly known as the Federal Union, to which the people of the Confederate States will ever consent. Wrongs too grievous and multiplied have been committed upon us and upon our most cherished rights..." In the 20 January Resolution the Congress denounces the "Black Republican" party, which "not only made war upon the institution of slavery, but went so far as to proclaim the equality of the black with the white race, thus adding the grossest injuries to the past and contemptible injuries to the Southern people." Now Lincoln was "creating a servile insurrection, and instigating the indiscriminate butchery of helpless women and children, by proclamation..." They ask Jefferson Davis to ask for full compensation for all slaves emancipated by Lincoln's "savage" Proclamation. Together 2 items. (2)
TWO ANGRY CONFEDERATE BLASTS AGAINST THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. The Confederate House of Representatives denounces Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation in these two resolutions. In the first, they declare any sense of kindred nationalism with Northerners to be completely and utterly destroyed. "There is no plan of reconstructing what was formerly known as the Federal Union, to which the people of the Confederate States will ever consent. Wrongs too grievous and multiplied have been committed upon us and upon our most cherished rights..." In the 20 January Resolution the Congress denounces the "Black Republican" party, which "not only made war upon the institution of slavery, but went so far as to proclaim the equality of the black with the white race, thus adding the grossest injuries to the past and contemptible injuries to the Southern people." Now Lincoln was "creating a servile insurrection, and instigating the indiscriminate butchery of helpless women and children, by proclamation..." They ask Jefferson Davis to ask for full compensation for all slaves emancipated by Lincoln's "savage" Proclamation. Together 2 items. (2)