Republican (nationalist) President Abraham Lincoln, of the united States, of the united States—without a constitutional amendment—signs the First Confiscation Act, pressing fugitive (contraband) slaves into federal service, thus preventing their escape into British North America (Canada).
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Republican President Abraham Lincoln, of the united States, of the united States—without a Constitutional amendment—signs the Privates Salary Increase Act of 1861, authorizing all of his previous actions as Commander-in-Chief regarding the (standing) Army and Navy of the united States and the State Militias (Citizen-volunteers) “as if they had been issued … under the previous … authority … of Congress. …”
NOTE: This is an ex post facto law, forbidden by Article I, Section 9 [Clause 3].
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References:
Confiscation Act, 13 Public Statutes at Large 319 (1861).
Privates Salary Increase Act of 1861, 12 Public Statutes at Large 326 (1861).
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 285.
Margret Leech, Reveille in Washington: 1860-1865, (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1941), 424.
Confiscation Act of 1861 – Wikipedia
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