In Norfolk, two thousand former slaves paraded.
I have gone through many newspapers to read of the rejoicing.
A black is quoted:
“Freedom are an unbroke filly...but I gwine to mount her.”
Hundreds of thousands of copies of my Emancipation have been printed and distributed.
To preserve the union.
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Surrounded by war I try to remember what Washington was like when I first came here about eighteen years ago. What a bedraggled place it was! I stayed at Brown’s Hotel. And Washington is again a bedraggled place, in a different way now, with tents, troops, cavalry, guns, death.
In ’47, I leased my house in Springfield for $90.00 a year. This time I have leased it for double. My tenants were neglectful in ’47; I expect neglect again.