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“Freedom is an expensive gift always worth fighting for. Even if it costs us!” Marck E. Estemil
“It seems sometimes as if these fellows, having now got the power in their own hands, meant to force all their vile notions upon the country as war measures.” Charles S. Wainright
“I never in my life felt more certain that I was doing right. My whole heart is in it.” Abraham Lincoln
“We like the Emancipation Proclamation because it is right, and because it is the edict of our Commander in Chief, the President of the United States.” Rufus Dawes
“the proclamation was ridiculed in the Army-caused disgust, discontent, and expressions of disloyalty to the views of the administration and amount, I have heard, to insubordination.”
Fitz John Porter
“For my part, I cant see what practical good it can do now. Wherever our army has been, there remain no slaves and the Proclamation wont free them where we don’t go…. I don’t mean to say that is not the right thing to do, but that, as a war measure, the evil will overbalance the good for the present.”
Robert Gould Shaw
“We are all liberated by this proclamation. Everybody is liberated. The white man is liberated, the black man is liberated, the brave men now fighting the battles of their country against rebels and traitors are now liberated… I congratulate you upon this amazing change—the amazing approximation toward the sacred truth of human liberty.” Frederick Douglass
“I do not hear much said here in the army on the subject, but all think it unadvised at this time; even those most antislavery.” Charles S. Wainright
“We may well leave it to the instincts of that common humanity which a beneficent Creator has implanted in the breasts of our fellow-men of all countries to pass judgment on a measure by which several millions of human beings of an inferior race, peaceful and contented laborers in their sphere, are doomed to extermination, while at the same time they are encouraged to a general assassination of their masters by the insidious recommendation ‘to abstain from violence unless in necessary self-defense.’ Our own detestation of those who have attempted by the most excrable measure recorded in the history of guilty man is tempered by a profound contempt for the impotent rage which it discloses. …” Jefferson Davis