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The emancipation Proclamation.
PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
60 STATES oE AMERICA.
WAsHLnoroN, Jan. l, 1868.

CHARACTERIZATION bI Ihh lhh
So a STATES oF AMERICA
d. WAsHInoros, Jan. /, 1868.
Whereas, on the 22i day OF September, Ii
the year Of our Lord One Thousand Eigh
Hundred and Sixty-two, q proclamation wal
issued by the President Of the United StateI
containing, among other things, the following
to wit
"That on the let of January, In the year Of
our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and
Sixty three, oil persons held as slaves within
any State, or designated part OF State, the
people whereof shall be in rebellion against the
United States, shall be then, henceforth and
forever free, and the Executive Governments Of
the United States, including the military and
naval authorities thereof, will recognize aud
maintain the freedom of such persons, and will
do no act or acts 10 Tepfees such persons OF
any of them In any effort they may make for
their actual freedom; that the Executive will
on the first day of January Aforesaid, issue O
proclamation designating the States and parts
Of States, If anS, in which the people therein
respectively shall then be 10 rebellion against
the United Ststesi and the fact that any Slate
or the people thereof, shall, on that day, be in
good faith represented in the Congress- OF the
United States by members chosen thereto al
elections wherein majority of the qualified
voters OF euch States shall have participated,
shall, in the absence of strong countervailinp
testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that
such State, and the people thereof, are not ip
rebellion against the United States"
Nov, therefore, !, Abraham Lincoln, Presi
eent OF the United States, by virtue Of the power
In me vested as Commander iE- Chief of the army
and navy in time of actual armed rebellion
against the authority of the Government of the
United States, and as fit and necessary wal
measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on
this tirst day OF January in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixty three
and In accordance with my purpose 90 10 do,
publicly proclaimed for the full period of one
hundred days from tho date OF the first above
mentioned order, designate as the States and
parts OF States wherein the people thereof re
spectively are this day In rebellion against The
United States, the following, to wits: Ar.
kansas, Texas, Louisiana, except the parish
es OF St. Bernard, PIaquemine, Jefferson, st
John, 81. Charles, st James,, Aacension, AS.
sumption, Terrebonne, La FcuIche, ST.. Mary.
81 Marlin and Orleans, including the city oi
New Osleans; Mississippi, Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and
Virginia, except the forty eight counties desig-
mated 40 West Virginis, and also the counties
OF berkley, Aecomac, Northampton, Eliz be, b
City, York, Princess Anne, and Norfolk, In.
clnding the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth;
which excepted parts are left precisely az Ii
this proclamation were not issued.
AID by vi tue Of the power and for the. pur
pose Aforesaid, do order and declare thaI ali
persons held as slaves within the designated
states and pats of States, are and hencefer,
l1Overnment of thu IInifad 9kataa tooi,5;., - ~