Sentence examples for proclamation of emancipation from inspiring English sources

He asked the ministers "what good would a proclamation of emancipation from me do" given the current military situation.

It was once conventional to claim that Lincoln's proposal was an attempt to appease conservatives while he pursued the policy he truly believed in: a presidential proclamation of emancipation.

Think back to that icy morning in February 2007, which now feels like another age, as Obama announced his improbable candidacy on the steps of Illinois's old State House – the very building where in 1858 Abraham Lincoln, the state legislator who would become the President, the man who signed the Proclamation of Emancipation, warned that "a house divided against itself cannot stand".

The radicals aggressively pushed the issue, provoking Lincoln to comment: "Stevens, Sumner and [Massachusetts Senator Henry] Wilson simply haunt me with their importunities for a Proclamation of Emancipation.

After crossing the river into China, Ms. Son dyed her hair and pierced her ears — small proclamations of emancipation.

Ms. Aguilera is right to be proud of the proclamation of teen-pop emancipation that is her new album, "Stripped," particularly songs like "Fighter," "Infatuation" and "Beautiful," all sung with more feeling and excitement (though the sound mix was lacking).

He had in 1962 begun penning monthly essays that he insisted would be "the Emancipation Proclamation of the sexual revolution".

"The Slave to His Star" appeared in The Anglo-African almost one year to the day after Abraham Lincoln issued his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation of Sept. 22, 1862.

–How and when was slavery abolished in North America (include references to the Fourteenth Amendment, Fifteenth Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863)?

The President's speech to his Cabinet, explaining why the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 may be insufficient, comes embellished with cadenzas of legal nicety, and lasts as long as an aria.

It supported President Abraham Lincoln's prosecution of the American Civil War and his other policies, but it lost money, was sold to a consortium of New York City Democrats, and abruptly turned on Lincoln after the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1 , 1863