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[[image - Emancipation Proclamation]]

Whereas …[[remainder of text not readable except for the bolded print in the middle which reads...]]
NOW THEREFORE I
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
BY VIRTUE OF THE POWER IN ME VESTED AS
COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ARMY AND NAVY