Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1863-01-09
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BELnows FALLS JANUARY ., 1868.
The Presidents Emancipation Pro-
clasnati0n.
BY the President OF the Unifed States Of
America.
A PROCLAMATION.

PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, on the 22d day of September,
in the year OF our Lord 1862, Proclama-
tion was issued by the President 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 1868, all persons held as
slaves within any State or designated part
of a State, the people whereof shall then
be in rebellion against the United States,
shallbe then, theneeforth and forever free
and the Executive Government of the
United States, including the military and
naval authority thereof will recognize anl
maintain the freedom of such persons, and
will do no act or acts 10 repress such per-
sons or any of them in any effort they may
make for their actual freedom; that the
Executive viii on the first day of January
aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the
States and parts Of States, if any, in which
the people therein respectively shall then
be 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 Congress of the United
States, by members--chosen thereto at elec-
tions wherein majority of the qualified
voters Of such State shall have participated
shall, in the absence of strong countt r
yaling testimony, be deemed conclusive ev-
idence that such State and The people there
OF are not then in rebellion against the
United States.
Now. therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
President 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 re-
belion against the authority and Govern
ment of the United States, and as ft and
necessary war measure, do, on this first day
of January in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three,
and in accordance with my purpose SO to
do, publicly proclaimed for the full period
of one hundred 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 fol-
lowing, to wit Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana,
except the parishes of ST. Bernard, Pac.
quemines, Jefferson, ST. John, St. Charles
st. James. Ascension, Assumption, Terre
Bonne, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin
and Orleans, including the city of New Or.
leans Mississippi Alabama, Florida, Geor.
gia, South Carolina, North Carolina and
Virginia, except the forty-eight counties
designated as West Virginia, and also the
counties of Berkley, Accomac, Northamp
ton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Anr
and Norfolk, including the cities of Nor
folk and Portsmouth, and which excepted
parts are for the present left precisely a;
ii 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 sald
designated States, and parts of States are
and henceforward shall be free, and that
the Executive Government of the United
States, including the military and nava
authorities thereof, will recognize ant
maintain the freedom of said persons; and
hereby enjoin upon the people so declared
4 10 be free TO abstain from all violence, un
less in necessary self defense. And rec
omend to them in all eases when allowed tc
iaeor faithfully for reasonable wages, and
further declare and make known that sucl
persous 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 sort
IN SAID service. And upon this act, sincere
y believed to be an act of justice, warrante,
oy the Constitution upon military necessity