Sentence examples for drafts of a proclamation from inspiring English sources

Senior legislative aides said that drafts of a proclamation to call a session had been circulated in both chambers.

At the same time, he shared in the drafting of a proclamation giving Anabaptists and Sacramentaries ten days to get out of the country.

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.

• The relaxed Lincoln was, in his own way, just as heroic: It was at the cottage that he is believed to have worked on early drafts of the Emancipation Proclamation.

At the same time President Benes was drafting a proclamation that would herald the end of the crisis.

Crumpled drafts of fevered proclamations lay scattered on the kitchen table.

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.