PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S FIRST CALL FOR TROOPS, 186 TOTAL NUMBER OF TROOPS CALLED INTO SERVICE DURING THE REBELLION, 188 RESOLUTIONS OF THE N.Y. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, 189 BLOCKADE PROCLAMATION, BY PRESIDENT LINCOLN, 194 EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION, 197 CONFISCATION ACT, 201 FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN, 204 BALANCE SHEET OF THE GOVERNMENT, BEFORE AND SINCE THE WAR, 1859 AND 1865, 221 PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S SECOND AND LAST INAUGURAL ADDRESS, 222 PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S PROCLAMATION OF AMNESTY, 226 PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S AMNESTY PROCLAMATION, 232 PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S PEACE PROCLAMATION, 237 THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL, 239 FREEDMEN'S BUREAU BILL, 248 PROVOST MARSHAL-GENERAL'S REPORT, OF THE KILLED AND WOUNDED DURING THE REBELLION, 261 THE UNITED STATES ARMY, SHOWING THE NUMBER OF MEN FURNISHED FROM EACH STATE DURING THE REBELLION, 265 HISTORY OF THE FLAG, 266 Key-Notes of American Liberty. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. _By the Representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled._ A DECLARATION. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.