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Handley: We have something that we call the Proclamation of the Family that basically states our position on the importance of the family.
A Mormon Responds to Proposition 8: Vanity Fair Fair, Vanity 2008
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Mr. Guelzo, the author of "Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation," is the director of Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania.
The Path To Proclamation Allen C. Guelzo 2010
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He wasn’t exactly a rabid abolitionist — even the Emancipation Proclamation is a halfway step — and of course the mechanism through which he was able to achieve such sweeping and dramatic change was an incredibly bloody war.
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So the Doctor has to turn to the Shadow Proclamation, which is a posh name for outer space police.
Doctor Who: The Stolen Earth nissa_amas_katoj 2008
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So the Doctor has to turn to the Shadow Proclamation, which is a posh name for outer space police.
Archive 2008-07-01 nissa_amas_katoj 2008
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The Proclamation was a triple blow to the Southern war effort since it undermined their reliance on slave labor, spurred the mass enlistment of Northern African-Americans and foreclosed European recognition and support of the Confederacy.
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Julia Ward Howe wrote this poem, The Mother's Day Proclamation, which is set to music and used still as a hymn in the Unitarian Universalist Church.
Happy Mother's Day! From Anna Jarvis and Julia Ward Howe 2006
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Either the Proclamation was a great, monstrous sham, and an imposition in the face of the world, or else that
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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In my judgment the Proclamation was the right thing in the right place, and without it I am just as sure as I am of my own existence that we could not have made the progress we have made.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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And, therefore, there can be nothing premature in this measure, and I can not see how any one who supports the Emancipation Proclamation, which is a recognition of the manhood of the whole colored people of this country, can hesitate as to his duty; and while I make no suggestion as to the duty of other men, I have a clear perception of my own.
History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States William Horatio Barnes
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