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Complete issue of the New York Times from September 23, 1862, eight pages, 15.5 x 21.75, featuring one of the first printings of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in the first column, headed: "Highly Important! A Proclamation by the President of the United States. The War Still to be Prosecuted for the Restoration of the Union. A Decree of Emancipation. All Slaves in States in Rebellion on the First of January Next to be Free. The Gradual Abolition and Colonization Schemes Adhered to. Loyal Citizens to be Remunerated for Losses' Including Slaves."
The column goes on to publish the text of President Lincoln's historic proclamation, in part: "I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare, that hereafter, as heretofore, the war will be prosecuted for the object of practically restoring the constitutional relation between the United States and the people thereof in which States that relation is, or may be suspended or disturbed; that it is my purpose, upon the next meeting of Congress, to again recommend the adoption of a practical measure tendering pecuniary aid to the free acceptance or rejection of all the Slave States so called, the people whereof may not then be in rebellion against the United States, and which States may then have voluntarily adopted, or thereafter may voluntarily adopt, the immediate or gradual abolishment of Slavery within their respective limits; and that the efforts to colonize persons of African descent with their consent, upon the Continent or elsewhere, with the previously obtained consent of the governments existing there, will be continued.
That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State, or any designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom."
In fine condition, with top edges uncut and a few stains to the margins.
