New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-03
The Proclamation of Emancipation


Whereas, on the tWcnty-secohu
day of September, in the year OF
our Lord one thousand eight hun
dred and sixty.two, Proclama-
ton was issued by the President
of the United States, containing
among other thing the following,
to wit:
"That on the First Day Of January, in the
Year of our Lord One Thousand Light Hun
dred and Sixty three, all persons held as Slaves
within any State, CT designated part Of State,
the people whereof shall then be in rebellion
against the United States, shall be thenceior'
ward and FOREVER FREE, and the Executive
Government OF the United States, including
tue Military and Naval authority thereof, Will
recognize aud maintain the freedom OF such
persons, and will do no act or acts to repress
such persons, on any OF them, in any efforts
they MAJ make for their actual freedom.
"Thst the Executive will, on the frat
day of January aforesaid, by Proclamation
designate the States and parts of States, II any,
in which tie people thereof respectively shall then
be IN Rebellion against the United States; and the
fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on
shat day be in good faith represented in the Con-
grcss Of the United States by Members chosen
thereto at election, wherein a majority OF the
qualified voters of such State shall have partci'
pated, sull, in the absence of strong coutervail-
ing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence
that such State and the people thereof are not
then in Rebellion against the United States
Now, therefore, |, ABRAHAM
LINCOLN, President Of the United
States, by virtue Of the power 10
me vested as Commander-in -Chief
of the Army and Navy Of the
United States, in time Of actual
armed rebellion against the author
ity and Government OF the United
States. and as fit and necessary
war measure for suppressing said
Rebellion, do, on this first day Of
January, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and
sixty thee, and i'll accordance with
my purpose so to do, publicly
proclaimed for the full period of
one hundred days from the day
first aforementioned, order and
designate as the States and parts
of States wherein the people
thereof, respectively, are this day
in rebellion against the United
States, the following, to-wit: Ar
kansas, Texas, Louisiana, Except
Parishes of st. Bernard, PLACE
mines, Jefferson, st. John, st.
Charles, St. James, Ascension, AS
sumption, Terre Bome, Lafourche,
s.. Marie, st. Martin, and Orleans,
including the City of New
Orlean5), Mississippi, Alabama,
Florida, Georgia, South Carolina,
North Carolina, and Virginia, Tex
cept the forty-eight counties de8ig-
mated as West Virginia, and also
the counties Of Berkeley, Ac.
comac, Northampton, Elizabeth
City, York, Princess Ann and
Norfolk, including the cities Of
Norfolk and Portsmouth, and
which excepted parts are, for the
present, left precisely as if this
Proclamation Were not issued.
And by virtue Of the power
and for the purpose aforesaid, |
do order and declare that ALL
PERSONS HELD AS SLAVES within
said designated States and parts
of States, ARE, AND HENoEroR.
WARD SHALL BE, FREE. and that
the Executive Government Of the