Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-01-06

Washington, Jan /, 1863.
TuE PRESIDENT CT THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA,
Whereas, on the 22d day Of September,
& tbe ! ear of our Luri, 1862, a Proclsma
8n was issued by the President of the
gnited States, containing among other
bings, the following, to wit:
",rhat on the FIRST day of January. in
lie year OF our Lord one thousand eight
HUNDRED and sixty three, all persons held
rs slaves within any State or designated
bart of State, the people whereof shall
then be in rebellion against the United
States, shall be then. henccflrth and for
ever, free, and the Executive Government
OF the United States, including the mill
tary and Naval authority thereof, will
recognize and maintain the freedom of
such persons, and will do 10 act or acts
4oTeIiress such persons, or any OF them,
IN any effort they may make for their ac-
tual ireedum; thac the Executive will on
the first day of January aforesaid, issue
proclanlation designating the States and
4 parts of States, if any, in which the peo-
Tile therein respectively shall then be in
= Iebelion against the United States, end
thetGct that any State or the people there
IS, shall on that cay, lie in good faith rep
lesented in the Congress Ct the United
iateH fymcmbers chosen thereto at cleo
ons wherein majority Of the qualified
oJers 81 such States shall have participa-
Ned, sha.l, in the absence Of strong coun-
tervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive
evidence that such State and the people
thereof are not rebellionaga tile United
Statese"
Now, therefore. 7, Abraham Lincoln.
President OF the United States, by virtue of
the power in me vested as C0mman1er-in-
Chief of the Army and Navy in time of
rctnn armed rebellion against the author
i,y of The Government Of the United States,
axn ftand necess iry War measure forsup-
pressing said rebellion, DO, on this first
day of Junuary, in the year Of our
lFrd One Thousand Eight Hundred and
Sixty Three, aud in accordance with my
I urpcse so to do, publicly proclaimed tor
the full Period Of one hundred days from
the date Of tie FIRST above mentioned order,
designated to the States and parts of Safes
therein, tie people whereof respectively
are this day in rebellion against tie United
States, the following, toswit: Arkansas.
Texas and Louisiana, Except the parishes
Of st, Bernard, Plaquemne, Jefferson, St.
John, ST. Charles, st. james, Ascension,
Assumption, Terrebo ne La Fourche, St.
Mary, ST. Martin aud Orleans, including
the city of New Orleans,) Mississippi,
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina:
North Ca rUlina andYirginia, Except the
4S counties designated as West Virginia.
aud also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac
Northampton, Elizabeth City, lOrk. Pein-
cess Anne and Norfolk. including the cities
OF Norfolk and Portsmouth, which except,
ed parts are for tie present left precisely
az n this Proclamation we're not Issued ;
and by virtue OF the power and fer the pug
pose Aforesaid. do order and declare that
allpersons held as Stages within designated
States, and parts Of States, are and hences
forward shall be free, and that the Exeous
uYeGOyernment of the United States, in
Gliding the military and naval authorities
Thereof, will recognize and maintain the
Freedom OF the said persons, and hereby
elJoin upon .he people SO declared to lie
free to abstain from all violen .e, unless in
necessary seiSdefense, and l recommend
70 them that. IN all cases where allowed
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 Quilted States, to garrison forts, posts
TORS, stations and other places, and tc man
xesselsoi all sorts in said service.
And upon this, sincerely believed to be
an act Of justice, warranted by the Consti
tnti0n, upon military necessity, / invoke
the considerate judgment of mauk nd 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 CRY 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 S gne
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
BY the President
VIM. II. SEWARD Secretary OF State