113 Responses. 1  When someone sneezes, he says, âI bless you.â. 2  Jesus walked on water, he swam on land. 3  He once won a marathon while sleeping. Bwahahahaha. 4  He knows what color the wind would be. 5  he once had a conversation with the tree. 6  The most interesting man in the world has Santa Claus worried about being on his naughty or nice listâ¦..
The Emancipation Proclamation (page 1) Record Group 11 General Records of the United States President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war.
Exactly 100 days earlier, Lincoln had issued a preliminary proclamation, vowing to free the slaves in all states still in active rebellion against the federal authority on this day, January 1. The rebellion had continued, but many doubted until the very last minute that Lincoln would make good his threat.