Nodding toward the Oval Office, he replied conspiratorially, "He has the Emancipation Proclamation in there.
"They will have had to issue a proclamation in the government gazette specifying it.
Having denounced the Emancipation Proclamation in January 1863, he was praising it a year later.
He could have made the same proclamation in January or July and probably did.
"The Food Lab" 's introduction begins with a proclamation in large type: "I'm a nerd, and I'm proud of it".
Two days after Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in September 1862, he renewed the nationwide suspension of the writ.
The queen issued a royal proclamation in 2003 acknowledging the "dark chapter" and calling for a day of commemoration.
By congressional proclamation in 1966, Waterloo, New York, was cited as the birthplace, also in 1866, of the observance.
The government also ratified an energy proclamation in November 2013 that has eased access for private investors.
And in any case, the legal questions were largely moot: until the war ended with a Union victory, the South couldn't very easily challenge the proclamation in court.
President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, and Congress and the states passed the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery, in 1865.
