Emperor Norton:

And I do hereby order and direct the representatives of the different States of the Union to assemble in Convention at the Musical Hall, of this city, on the first day of February next, then and there to make such alterations in the existing laws of the Union as may ameliorate the evils under which the country is laboring.

— Emperor Norton Contemporary

Self-declared Emperor of the United States

Context

Proclamation in the San Francisco Bulletin

Date / Period

1859

Source

https://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/norton.html

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