Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Kingdom Coming, the Emancipation Proclamation of September 22, 1862: An Address Delivered at the Chicago Historical Society, September 21, 1962
Lincoln had no desire to censure Fremont for his anti slavery views or actions. Rather, he was fearful of the effect of the proclamation as originally issued on sentiment in Ken tucky and other border states. On September 22, 1861, the President wrote Orville Browning: The Kentucky Legislature would not budge till that proclamation was modified. I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.
On May 19, 1862, Lincoln had to check another forward general. David Hunter, commander of the Department of the South and a friend of Lincoln, on May 9, 1862, published a general order freeing the slaves of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. In issuing this order Hunter exceeded his authority. When the President read the order in the news papers, he issued a proclamation annulling Hunter's action.
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