poughkeepsie february 28th, 1863. your excellency. mr. president, we sons of freedom. take the liberty of addressing you, thanking for proclaiming liberty to suffering millions of our oppressed fellow countrymen whose groans have ascended to that god, who is our refuge and help in times of trouble. we prayed for a deliver the likened unto moses, believing that our prayer has been and that god has raised your excellency as a deliverer and a land by which our feet are guided into the path of glory. of liberty. the of human liberty. formidable to tyrants and dear to the oppressed. throughout the world, containing the elements of immortal sublime is heaven, and its far reaching as eternity, embracing every interest that appertaining to the welfare of bodies and souls of men, and sustain by the omnipotent and so the lord almighty. the proclamation issued, your excellency, january 1st, 1863, making liberty paramount to slavery the triumph of truth over liberty, over oppression loyalty, over treason and rebellion, republicanism over aristocracy, liberty, the sound that rallie