{"id":15687,"date":"2023-01-01T01:00:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T07:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=12409"},"modified":"2021-07-11T21:11:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T02:11:27","slug":"woolsey-family-during-the-war-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/woolsey-family-during-the-war-3\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Lord reigneth, let the earth rejoice!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the 22nd of September, 1862, a gleam of light had shone, the President had issued &#8220;his preliminary proclamation of emancipation; and now on January 1st, 1863 came the announcement of full liberty to the captives.<\/p>\n<p>Extract from the Proclamation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power vested in me as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, . . . and as a necessary war-measure, . . . do order and declare that all persons held as slaves (within the states in rebellion) are, and henceforward shall be free.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The passage by Congress of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution followed, extending emancipation to all parts of the United States and its territories.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/woolsey_abby_howland2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-66774 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/woolsey_abby_howland2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"142\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a>Abby Howland Woolsey writes, Jan., &#8217;63:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I improved yesterday to my satisfaction in reading the President&#8217;s proclamation. &#8220;The Lord reigneth, let the earth rejoice!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 22nd of September, 1862, a gleam of light had shone, the President had issued &#8220;his preliminary proclamation of emancipation; and now on January 1st, 1863 came the announcement of full liberty to the captives. Extract from the Proclamation. &#8220;I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power vested in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-letters-of-a-family-during-the-war-for-the-union"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}