The proclamation of emancipation by the president of the United States, to take effect January 1st, 1863
Contributors: United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln)
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1862
Place of publication: [S.l]
Language: eng
Other titles: By the President of the United States: A proclamation.
Notes: Cover title.

The preliminary proclamation dated September 22, 1862.

Issued in buff printed wrappers; quotation on back cover, "Slavery the chief corner-stone. 'This stone (slavery), which was rejected by the first builders, is become the chief stone of the corner in our new edifice.'--Speech of Alex. H. Stephens, vice-president of the so-called Confederate States, delivered March 21, '61."

Monaghan, J. Lincoln bibliography, 0147.

Abraham Lincoln and the American Experiment, October 1995 through June 30, 2008.

Copy 1: Lower right corner of first page clipped out.

Copy 3: From the Daniel Lincoln collection; handwritten inscription on back cover: Ella, from Uncle Frank.