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Gilder Lehrman Document Number:
GLC00263
Title: Thirteenth amendment resolution
Author: Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)
Year: 1865/02/01
Place: Washington
Type of document: Document signed
Quotation: "Neither slave nor involuntary servitude...shall exist"
Description: Congressional copy. One of the most significant copies of the Thirteenth amendment resolution ending slavery, signed by Lincoln, Hamlin, Colfax (twice), Forney, McPherson, 37 senators, and 111 Congressmen. It is Ex-Barrett. Of Senators who voted for the Amendment Resolution, only two did not sign this copy: William Pitt Fessenden and B. F. Harding, though L. M. Morrill signed twice. Of Congressmen who voted for the Resolution only nine did not sign this copy: James S. Rollins, George W. Julian, John A. J. Creswell, William Radford, John F. Starr, Walter D. McIncloe, Ambrose W. Clark, Amos Myers, and John Ganson. One of thirteen souvenir copies signed by Lincoln. Dimesions matted 71 x 56 cm.
Full Text: Thirty-Eighth Congress of the United States of America at the second session begun and held at the City of Washington, on Monday, the fifth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four A Resolution submitting to the legislatures of the several states a proposition to amend the Constitution of the United States. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two thirds of both Houses concurring.) That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States which, when ratified by three-fourths of said legislatures, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as a part of the said Constitution, namely: Article XIII. Sec. 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Sec. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. I certify that this Resolution originated in the Senate. J. W. Forney, Secretary Schuyler ColfaxSpeaker of the House of Representatives H. HamlinVice President of the United States and President of the Senate Attest. E. McPherson Clerk of the House of Representatives Approved February 1 A.D. 1865. Abraham Lincoln 1. S. C. Pomeroy 11. Lyman Trumbull 2. W. T. Willey 12. L. F. S. FosterIn the Senate April 8. 1864 3. H. S. Lane13. Solomon Foot21. J. Collamer28. Edgar Cowan36. Timy. O Howe 4. L. M. Morrill14. Jn C. Ten Eyck 22. B. F. Wade29. John P. Hale 37. James W. Grimes 5. J. W. Nesmith15. James Dixon23. J. B. Henderson30. B. Gratz Brown38. 6. J. R. Doolittle16. J. H. Lane24. Ira Harris31. J. M. Howard 7. Reverdy Johnson17. Alex. Ramsey25.Wm Sprague32. H. B. Anthony 8. P. C. Van Winkle18. Jas. Harlan26.Charles Sumner33. John Conness 9. M. S. Wilkinson19. E. D Morgan27.L. M. Morrill34. Henry Wilson 10. Z. Chandler20. Daniel Clark35. John Sherman In the House of Representatives January 31. 1865. Schuyler ColfaxHenry G. WorthingtonThaddeus StevensAlex. H. Rice Isaac N. ArnoldHenry C. Deming E. R. EckleyJustin S. Morrill Amasa Cobb J. F. DriggsFredck E. WoodbridgeWm. HigbyN. B. Smithers J. M. Broomall Luc. Anderson Cornelius ColeD. W. GoochTheodore M. PomeroyC. T. Hulburd N.Y. J. M. MarvinJohn D. BaldwinPortus BaxterW. B. WashburnR. B. Van Valkenburgh J. A. GarfieldWm. B. Allison F. W. KelloggA. W. Hubbard Francis Thomas Oakes Ames Mass.E Dumont Rufus P. SpaldingChas. O'NeillJ.W. Patterson N. H. H. PriceGeo. S. BoutwellJesse O. NortonH. W. TracyJohn A. Kasson E. C. IngersollS. HooperJohn B. SteeleJno. W. LongyearE. C. Washburne Ill. H. L. Dawes M. Russell ThayerThomas D. EliotJames T. HaleSidney Perham John H. Rice A. Myers Pa.Wm. D. KelleyD. Morris N.Y.Wm. G. Brown W. Va. F. C. BeamanJ. M AshleyD. C. Littlejohn John H. Hubbard J. F. Farnsworth Sempronius H. BoydT. A. JenckesNathan F. Dixon R. I.A. C. Wilder Kan.S. F. Miller N.Y. James F. WilsonI. C. SloanOrlando S. KelloggChas. UpsonHenry T. Blow F. ClarkeJ. W. McClurgLeonard MyersJohn A. GriswoldThos. T. Davis N. Y. Jno R. McBrideThom Williams Pa.Edwin H. WebsterAug. C. BaldwinWm. Windom James E. EnglishIgnatius DonnellyA. McAllister Godlove S. OrthW. H. Randall Augustus FrankFred A PikeGiles W. Hotchkiss E. H. Rollins K. V. Whaley Samuel KnoxBenjn. F. Loan Mo.T. B. ShannonM. F. Odell Anson Herrick N.Y. John B Alley MaGeo. H. YeamanJ. G. BlaineG. W. Scofield A. H. Coffroth Augustus BrandegeeJ. B. Grinnell Iowa W. A. HutchinsEzra WheelerJacob B. Blair G. Clay Smith J. K. Moorhead Pa. H. A. NelsonH. Winter Davis Austin A. KingJoseph BailyRbt C. Schenck
Annotation: The Emancipation Proclamation freed only those slaves in states still at war. As a wartime order, it could subsequently be reversed by presidential degree or congressional legislation. The permanent emancipation of all slaves therefore required a constitutional amendment. In April 1864, the Senate passed the Thirteenth Amendment to abolish slavery in the United States. Opposition from Democratic Representatives prevented the amendment from receiving the required two-thirds majority. If McClellan and the Democrats had won the election of 1864, as Lincoln and most Northerners expected in the summer, the amendment would almost certainly have been defeated and slave emancipation repudiated as a war aim. Only after Lincoln was reelected did Congress approve the amendment. Ratification by the states was completed in December 1865.
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