The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1863-01-08


BY THE PRESIDENT OF TUE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA:
Uhereas, On the % day Of September,
in the year of our Lord, 1862, proclama-
ton was issued by the President of tha
United States, cor ortamng, among other
things, the following. to vi:
THAT on the 1st day of January, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eigh
hundred and sixty three. all persons held
as slaves within any State, or designated
part of State. the people whereof shall
then be in rebellion against the United
States shall be henceforth and forever free;
and the Executive government OF the Uni
ted States, including the military and ma
val authorities thereof. will recognize and
maintain the freedom of such persons, and
will do no act or acts to repres such per
sons, or any Of them in amy effort they
NAV make for their actual freedom; that
the Executive W IL, on the first day Of Jan
uary aforesaid, issue proclamation deslg-
mating the States and parts Of States, If any
in which the pc, pie therein respectively
shall then be in rebellion against the Uni
ted States: and the fact that any State, or
the people thereof, shall OH that day be in
good faith represented in the Congress of
the United States by members chosen
thereto Il; elections wherein "a majority oi
the qualified voters of such States shall
have participated, shall in the absence OF
strong countervailing testimony, be deem
ed conclusive that such State aud the peo-
pie thereof are not in rebellion against tie
Uuitcd States.
Now therefore, ], Abraham Lincoln,
President of the United States, by virtue
Of the power III me vested, rs Command
erin Chief Of the Army and Navy, in a
time of actual armed rebellion against the
authority OF the government OF the United
States, as fit and necessary war measure
Tor suppressing said rebellion, do, on this
first day Of January, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and six
iv-lhrec, and in accordance with my pur-
pose so 10 do, publicly proclaim FIR the
iuil period of one hundied days from the
date of the first above mentioned order
designate as the State and parts OF State
therein, the people whereof are this day ii
rebellion against the United States, the io
lowing to-wit: Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana
except tie par she's Of St. Bernard, Pal
quemi,e, jefferson, St. Charles, St. James
Ascension. Assumption, Terrebonne, l.;
Fourche, ST. Mary, St. Martin, and Or
leans, including the city of New Orleans
Missssippi; Alabama; Florida; Georgia
South Carolina. Mouth Carolina; and Nlr
giuia, except the forty-eish! counties dcs
iyna,ed as West Virginia, and also tn,
counties of Accomac, Berkley, Northamp'
ton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Anne,
|,
folk, and Portsmouth, which excepted part'
are for the present left precisely the sam,
as if this proclamation had not been issued
And by virtue Of the power and for the
: purpose afore said, do order and declar,
that all persons held as slaves within des
ignated States, and parts Of States, are
and henceforward sLall be free, and tha
the Executive government of the United
States, including the military and nava
. authorities thereo', will recognize ant
maintain the freedom Of the said persons
and hereby enjoin upon the people SO de
ciarcd free TO abstain from all violence, un
less in necessary self defense, and ! rec
ommend TO them in all cases. where allow
ed, to labor faithfully for reasonable wages
such persons of suitable conditin will bt
received into the armed service of the u mi
ted States. to gareison forts, positions, sta
tions, and other places. and TO man vessels
r of all sorts in said service.
, And upon this sincerely believed 10 be
/ an act of justice, warrented by the Consti
tuition. upon military necessity, invoke
the considerate Judgment of mankind ant
, The gracious favor of Almighty God.
In witness whereof, | have hereun:o Sc
/ my hand and caused the seal of the United
States TO be affixed
Done at the city of Washington, thi
; first day of January. in the year of ou
Lord one thousand eight hundred and six
ty three, and of the independence of th'
United States of America the eighty sew
enth.
(Signed) ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
BY the President:
WM II SEWARD Secretary Of State.