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Emancipation Proclamation

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KIRKLAND, CHARLES P. A Letter to the Hon. Benjamin R. Curtis, Late Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States, in Review of His Recently Published Pamphlet on the "Emancipation Proclamation" of the President. Second Edition. New York: Anson D. F. Randolph, 1863. 20 pp. Printed wrappers. A strong defense of the constitutionality of the Proclamation as a war measure by a distinguished New York attorney., The first edition is said to have been privately published for limited circulation. On December 7, 1863, President Lincoln wrote to Kirkland: "I have just received and have read your published letter to the Hon. Benjamin R. Curtis. Under the circumstances, I may not be the most competent judge, but it appears to me to be a paper of great ability, and for the country's sake more than for my own, I thank you for it."

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