Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 5 [Oct. 24, 1861-Dec. 12, 1862].

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Title: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 5 [Oct. 24, 1861-Dec. 12, 1862].
Author: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Publication: New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press; 1953.
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Proclamation of the Act to Suppress Insurrection1Jump to section

July 25, 1862

By the President of the United States of America,

A proclamation

In pursuance of the sixth section of the act of Congress entitled ``An act to suppress insurrection, and to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate property of rebels, and for other purposes,'' Approved July 17, 1862; and which act, and the Joint Resolution explanatory, thereof, are herewith published; I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby proclaim to, and warn all persons within the contemplation of said sixth section to cease participating in, aiding, countenancing, or abetting the existing rebellion, or any rebellion, against the government of the United States, and to return to their proper allegiance to the United States, on pain of the forfeitures and seizures, as within, and by said sixth section provided.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

[L.S.]

Done at the City of Washington, this twenty-fifth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty seventh.

By the President: ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

WILLIAM. H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.

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[1] ADf, PP; DS, DNA FS RG 11, Proclamations. The autograph draft in the Free Library of Philadelphia has the first paragraph in Lincoln's handwriting and the remainder in the hand of a clerk. This draft was obtained by James C. Welling, editor of the National Intelligencer, for sale at the Great Central

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Sanitary Fair in Philadelphia. Welling's letter of transmittal is preserved with the draft. It should be noted that the first paragraph is identical with the first paragraph of the draft presented at the cabinet meeting on July 22, at which meeting Lincoln was dissuaded from issuing the remainder of the proclamation as drafted. Thus it seems probable that Lincoln simply made a copy of the first portion pertaining to the Act to Suppress Insurrection and turned it over to Secretary Seward, whose clerk added the conclusion in customary language. The official signed copy in the National Archives was presumably prepared from this draft.