At the same time President Benes was drafting a proclamation that would herald the end of the crisis.
Seward also proposed to Lincoln that he proclaim a day of national thanksgiving, and drafted a proclamation to that effect.
Before turning command over to Montgomery, Schuyler drafted a proclamation addressed to the people of Quebec, encouraging them to oppose the British and assist the American cause.
On December 29th, Lincoln read a draft of the Proclamation to his Cabinet and he discussed it with them again, two days later.
Schuyler, whose health was poor, drafted a proclamation in which he called the Canadians "Friends and Countrymen", asking them to help expel the British from Canada.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 — The house where Abraham Lincoln wrote a draft of the Emancipation Proclamation and retreated often from the bustle of a wartime White House is to open in February after an eight-year, $15 million renovation.
A1 Lincoln's Cottage at Risk A country cottage where Abraham Lincoln spent almost a quarter of his incumbency and wrote a draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, is about to be designated by preservationists as the most endangered historic site in the nation.
The retreat, known as Anderson Cottage, where the president spent almost a quarter of his incumbency and wrote a draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, will head the annual endangered list this week from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the nonprofit group that searches out rare buildings and neighborhoods across the country.
He started writing a draft of the Emancipation Proclamation.
