...readers. After reciting his former proclamation, the President proceeds :— •' Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by...vested, as C'ommanderin-Chief of the army and navy of the United States, in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Governmontof the United...

...closing announcement of the Act, we quote, as follows, omitting the preamble : — " Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, in time of actual rebellion against the...

...announcement of the Act, we quote, as follows, omitting the preamble:— " Now, therefore, I, AURAUAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, in time of actual rebellion against the...

...shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such state, and the people thereof, are not then in rebellion against the United States. That attention is hereby called to an act of Congress entitled " An act to make an additional article...

...shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State, and the people thereof, are not then in rebellion against the United States. Then, after reciting the language of " An act to make an additional article of war," approved March...

...shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State, and the people thereof, are not then in rebellion against the United States. That attention is hereby called to an act of Congress entitled "An act to make an additional article...

...shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State, and the people thereof, are not then in rebellion...Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtueof the power in me vested, as Commander-in-Chief of the army and navy of the United States, in...

...shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State, and the people thereof, are not then in rebellion against the United States. That attention is hereby called to an act of Congress entitled "An act to make an additional article...

...shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State and the people thereof are not then in rebellion against the United States. That attention is hereby called to an act of Congress entitled "An act .to make an additional article...

...shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State and the people thereof are not then in rebellion against the United States." Thus the war has changed, ostensibly if not really, its character and aims. Before, it was Republicanism...