position, and secured its passage by a test vote of
seventy-eight to fifty-four. No other action of consequence then
followed except a manifestation of interest in compensated
emancipation in Missouri.

At a cabinet meeting on the last day of December, 1862, Lincoln read
the final draft of the Emancipation Proclamation and invited
criticism. He made some revision of a minor nature but rejected the
proposal to eliminate from the order the provision that the freedmen
be armed. In this form the Proclamation was issued the following day,
January 1, 1863. The constitutionality of this document has been
questioned. It is conceded, however, that it did actually abolish
slavery within the rebellious area and as a moral stimulus to the
struggle for freedom, it proved to be of great value.

HARRY S. BLACKISTON

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Edwards, _History of Illinois_, 179.

[2] Nicolay and Hay, _Abraham Lincoln_, I, 72; W. H. Lamon, _Life of
Abraham Lincoln_, 83.

[3] Nicolay and Hay, _Abraham Lincoln_, I, 15, 140, 151, 642.

[4] Nicolay and Hay, _Abraham Lincoln_, I, 148, 285-288.

[5] Nicolay and Hay, _Abraham Lincoln_, I, 286.

[6] _Ibid._, I, 373, 375, 380-390.

[7] _Ibid._, I, pp. 391, 392.

[8] Nicolay and Hay, II, 85, 89.

[9] Nicolay and Hay, II, 136-138, 143.

[10] Nicolay and Hay, II, 137, 156, 157; _Lincoln-Douglass Debates_,
p. 8.

[11] Nicolay and Hay, II, pp. 75, 147.

[12] _Ibid._, II, p. 149.

[13] Nicolay and Hay, II, 156, 157, 216.

[14] Murat Halstead, _Conventions of 1860_, 6.

[15] _Ibid._, 7.

[16] Nicolay and Hay, II, 255.

[17] Nicolay and Hay, II, 287, 382.

[18] Rhodes, _United States_, III, p. 357.

[19] Burgess, _Civil War_, II, p. 76.

[20] Nicolay and Hay, _Abraham Lincoln_, IV, 416-420; V, p. 211.

[21] Burgess, _Civil War_, II, 79-80.

[22] Nicolay and Hay, V, 206.

[23] Nicolay and Hay, V, 207.

[24] Dodge, _View_, chap. xi.

[25] Nicolay and Hay, V, p. 209.

[26] McPherson, _History of the Rebellion_, p. 210.

[27] Nicolay and Hay, V, 214.

[28] _Ibid._, VI, p. 90.

[29] Nicolay and Hay, VI, 94-96.

[30] _Ibid._, VI, 97.

[31] Nicolay and Hay, VI, 99-100.

[32] Nicolay and Hay, VI, 103.

[33] _Ibid._, VI, 107.

[34] _Ibid._, VI, pp. 109-111.

[35] King, _New Orleans_, ch. xiii.

[36] Dodge, _View_, ch. x.

[37] Nicolay and Hay, VI, p. 121.

[38] _Ibid._, VI, pp. 123-124.

[39] Warden, _Life of S. P. Chase_