The proclamation Mrs. Johnson refers to is the emancipation Proclamation.
“They tell me . . . you will take back the Proclamation, don't do it. When you are dead and in Heaven, in a thousand years that action of yours will make the Angels sing your praises I know it. Ought one man to own another, law for or not, who made the law, surely the poor slave did not. So it is wicked, and a horrible outrage, there is no sense in it.”
