The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1863-01-08
The Presidents Emancipation Decree.

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Loyal Slare States and Parts Of
States Not Included an the Decree.
wAsHISeroS. January !, 1868.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA:
Whereas, oil the 22d day of Septem-
Der, in the year of our Lord, 1862, a
Proclamation was issued by the Presi-
dent of the United States, containing
among other things, the following, to
wit:
THAT on the lst day of January, in
the year of our Lord, one thousand
eight hundred and sixiy-three, all per-
sons held as slaves within amy State or
designated part of State, the people
whereof shall then lie in rebellion
against the United States, shall he then,
hencetorth and forever, free, and the
Executive Government of the United
States, including the military and naval
authority thereof, will recognize and
maintain the freedom Of such persons,
and will do no act or acts TO repress
snch persons, or any Of them, in any
effort they may make for their actual
freedom that the Executive will, OH
the first day of January aforesaid, issue
proclamation designing the States
and parts of States, if any, in which
the people therein respectively shall
then he in rebellion against the United
States. and the fact that any State, or
the people thereof, shall on that day be
in good faith represented in the Con-
gress of the United States by members
chosen thereto at elections wherein a
majority OF the qualified voters of such
States Shall have participated, shall, in
the absence OF strong countervailing
testimony be deemed conclusive evi.
dence that such State and the people
thereof are not in rebellion against the
United States"
Now, therefore. /, Abraham Lincoln,
President of the United States, by vir-
tue of the power in me vested as Com
mander- in-Chief of the Army and
Navy, in time of actual armed rebel
lion against the authority of the Gov.
ernment of the United States, as a fit
and necessary War measure for sup.
pressing said rebellion, do, on the first
day Of January, in the year of our
Lord, one thousand. Eight Hundred
and Sixty Three, and in accordance
with my purposes so to do, publicly
proclaimed for the full period of one
hundred days from that date of the frs,
above mentioned order, designate a.
the States and parts of States therein
the people whereof respectively are
this day in rebellion against the United
States, the following, to wit :-Arkan.
sas, Texas and Louisiana, Except the
parishes of St. Bernard, Plaqueminc
Jefferson, ST. John, ST. Charles, ST.
James, Ascension, Assumption, Tcrre.
bonnie, La Fourche, St. Mary, St. Mar.
tin and New Orleans, including the
city of New Orleans,) Mississippi, AL
ALBANIA, Florida, Georgia, South Caro-.
lima, North Carolina and Virginia, Tex.
cept the 4s counties designated as
West Virginia, and also the counties
of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton,
Elizabeth City, York, Princess Anne
and Norfolk, including the cities oil
Norfolk and Portsmouth, which ac
cepted 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 or.
der and declare that all persons held
as slaves within designated States, and
parts of States, are and benceforward
shall be free, and that the Executive
Government of the United States, in
Guiding the military and naval author
tiles thereof, will recognize and main
tain the freedom of the said persons
and l hereby enjoin upon the peopl.
SO declared to be free to abstain from
all violence, unless in necessary self
defense, and / recommend to them thai
in all cases where allowed, they labor
faithfully for reasonable wages, and
further declare and make known tina
such persons of suitable condition, will
be received into the armed service O
the United States, to garrison forts
positions, stations and other places
and to man vessels Of all sorts in sale
service.
And upon this, sincerely believed t.
be an act Of justice, warranted b,