2006-06
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/31/2006
Confederate imprint, 4p. octavo, ordered to be printed by the Confederate House of Representatives, February 15, 1864, and reads in part: “...the proclamations issued by the President of the United States, ‘designed or tending to emancipate slaves in the Confederate States, or to abduct them, or to incite them to insurrection, or to employ negroes in war against the Confederate States, or to overthrow the instiution of African slavery and bring on a servile war in these states,’ were denounced as inconsistent with the spirit of those usages, which, in modern warfare, prevail among civilized nations, and therefore as subject to repression by retaliation...it is resolved by the Congress of the Confederate States of America, That they do adhere to the position that he emancipation of the negro slaves within the Confederate States by the enemy, is not among the acts of legitimate warfare; but is properly classed, by writers on public laws, including the most eminent publicists of the United States, among such acts as ‘putting to death all prisoners in cold blood and without special cause, or the right to use poisoned weapons, or to assissinate.’...That Congress approve the action of the Executive in refusing to entertain any proposition for treating our own recaptured negroes otherwise than as the property of those from whom they were abducted by the enemy, and to whom the laws require their restoration...” Fine.
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