the Emancipation Proclamation
January 1, 1863
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation
I THINK THE ANSWER IS IN 1863
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1863
November 19, 1863, is when Lincoln DELIVERED the Gettysburg Address. He didn't sign it, because it was not a bill. It was a speech.
Lincoln didn't sign anything in 1886. He died in 1864 twenty-two years before 1886.
The Gettysburg Address was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, during the US Civil War, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg. Lincoln was invited as the second speaker and many people in Pennsylvania did not believe the US president should be the main speaker. In fact the nation's greatest orator took over two hours in his opening speech. Lincoln's speech was less than two minutes but actually had more meaning.
Yes. He'd been waiting all summer (1862) for a Northern victory that would enable him to make the announcement without making it sound like a desperate measure. A few days after the unexpected Northern vistory at Antietam, he issued the Proclamation, to be effective from January 1st 1863.
That was when the Emancipation Proclamation became effective. He had wanted to issue it in the summer of 1862, when the Confederates were in the ascendant, but his cabinet said it would look like a desperate measure. So he waited till there was a Union victory, which came (unexpectedly) in September. But even then, he decided to give the Southern states a few weeks to quit the Confederacy and re-join the Union. None of them did. And so the Emancipation became effective in January 1863. Its main effect (and most urgent) was to keep the British from aiding the Confederates, as it would have made them look pro-slavery themselves.
september 22 1862