Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Life of John an Andrew, Governor of Massachusetts, 1861-1865, Vol. 2 of 2
When Abraham Lincoln wrote his signature to the Proclamation of Emancipation, though in form he was announcing the decree of a military ruler, that form meant little more than that it happened to be the most convenient method of enacting what was already the popular will. Emancipation was the deed not of one man, but of a nation; not of one day, but of a year. In its accomplishment, Massachusetts, through her governor, played her proper part.
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