Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-01-02
LATEST NE WIS.
BY TELE RAPH
TO THE WORCESTER DAILY SPY.
THE LIBERTY BELL SOUNDED.

By the President Of the United States of
Ame,tca--a Proclamation.
Whereas, on the 22d day of September, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun
bred and sixty-two, proclamation was issued
by the president of the United States, contain
ing among other things the following, to wit;
That on 'the first day Of January, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and. sixty-three, all persons held as slaves
within any state or designated part of a state,
against the United States, shall be then,
thenceforth and forever free, and the execu-
tive government of the United States, includ-
ing the military and naval authority thereof,
will recognize and maintain the freedom of
such persons, and will do no act or acts
to repress such persons, or any of them,
in any effort they may make for their
actual freedom; and that the executive
will on the first day of January afore-
said, by proclamation, designate the states
and parts OF states, if any, in which the
people therein respectively, shall then be in
rebellion against ths United States, and the
fact that any state, or the people thereof, shall
on that day be ingood faith represented in the
congress of the United States, by members
chosen thereto, at elections wherein MAORI
ty of the qualified voters of such state shall
have participated, shall, in the absence of
strong countervailing testimony, be deemed
conclusive evidence that such state and the
people thereof, are not then in rebellion
against the United States"
Now therefore, l, Abraham Lincoln, presi-
dent of the United States, by virtue of the
power in me vested, as commander-in-chief
of the army and navy of the United States, in
time of actual armed rebellion against the au-
thority 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 cur Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty three, in
accordance with my purpose SO to do, public
ly proclaimed for the full period of one hun
bred days from the day first above mentioned,
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:
Arkansas; Texas; Louisiana, except the
parishes of st. Bernard, Placquemines, JEFF
ferson, st. John, ST. Charles, st. James, As
cension, Terre Bonnie, Lafourche, st. Mary,
St. Martin, and Orleans, including the city of
New Orleans; Missssippi Alabama; Flori-
da; Georgia; South Carolina; North Caro-
lima; and Virginia, except the forty -eight
counties designated as West Virginia, and all
the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northamp-
ton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Anne, and
Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and
Portsmouth; and the excepted parts, are for
the present left precisely as if this proclama-
ton were not issued.
And by virtue of the power, and for the
purpose aforesaid, l do order and declare
that all persons held as slaves within said de-
signated states, and parts of states, are and
henceforward shall be free, and that the ex-
ecutive government of the United States in
Guiding the military and naval authorities
thereof, will recognize and maintain the free
dom of said persons.
And hereby enjoin upon the people so de-
clared to be free, to abstain from all violence
unless i'll necessary self-defence and recon-
mend to them in all cases, when allowed, that
they labor faithfully for reasonable wages;
and further declare and make known that
such persons, of suitable condition, will be
received into the armed service of the United
States, to garrison forts, positions, stations,
and other places, and to man vessels of all
sorts in said service;
And upon this act, sincerely believed to be
an act of justice warranted by the constitu
ton upon military necessity, L invoke the
considerate judgment of mankind, and the
gracious favor of Almighty God.
In witness whereof, have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this first
day of January, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and
of the independence of the United States of
America the eighty-seventh.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President:
WILLIAM H. SEWARD. Secretary of State.
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