...proclamation I have just read were embodied and expanded. Section 4 of the law reads as follows: SEO. 4. That every white person, being a commissioned officer or acting as such, whoduring the present war, shall command negroes or mulattoes in arms against the Con, federate States,...

...be made for every such violation, in such manner and to such extent as be may think proper. See. 4. That every white person, being a commissioned officer,...present war, shall command negroes or mulattoes in arme against the Confederate States, or who shall arm, train, organize, or prepare negroes or mulattoes...

...be made for every such violation, in such manner and to such extent as he may think proper. "SEo. 4. h< tnulattoes in arms against the Confederate States, or who shall arm, train, organize, or prepare negroes...

...rebel congress, as shown in the following sections of an act approved May 1, 1863, to wit : "Ssc. 4. That every white person, being a commissioned officer,...who shall arm, train, organize or prepare negroes or mulatloes for military service against the Confederate States, or who shall voluntarily aid negroes...

...tolerated in the armies of the Union. Yet, in the face of these notorious facts, it is here provided that " every White person, being a commissioned officer,...the present war, shall command negroes or mulattoes [whether ever slaves or not] in arms against the Confederate States, shall, if captured, be put to...

...tolerated in the armies of the Union. Yet, in the face of these notorious facts, it is here provided that "every White person, being a commissioned officer,...the present war, shall command negroes or mulattoes [whether ever slaves or not] in arms against the Confederate States, shall, if captured, le put to...

...rebel congress, as shown in the following sections of an act approved May 1, 1863, to wit : " SEC. 4. That every white person, being a commissioned officer,...who, during the present war, shall command negroes or raulattoos in arms against the Confederate States, or who shall arm, train, organize or prepare negroes...

...be made for every such violation, in such, manner and to such extent as he may think proper. See. 4. That every white person, being a commissioned officer,...arms against the Confederate States, or who shall ami, train, organize, or prepare negroes or mulattoes for military service against the Confederate...

...their statute books in the early part of the year 1863, and contained the following clause : — " Every white person, being a commissioned officer,...mulattoes in arms against the Confederate States, shall, if captured, be put to death, or otherwise punished, at the discretion of the court." But there...

...negroes appeared. The Confederate Congress passed, May 1st, 1863, a bill, of which section 4 provided : " That every white person, being a commissioned officer,...or mulattoes in arms against the Confederate States .... shall be deemed as inciting servile insurrection, and shall, if captured, be put to death, or...