The Placer herald., 1863-01-10
Lin coins Negro Proclamation.
WAsHINGTON, January Is

WAsHINGroN, January lst.
By the President Of the United States:
Whereas, On the 22I of Sc ptember, 1862,
proclamation was issued 10y the President
of the United States containing among
other things, the following, to wit: That
on the lst day Of January, 1868, all persons
held as slaves within any State, or designated
part of State, the people whereof shall be
in rebellion against the United States, shall
be henceforth and forever free, and the Ex
ecutive branch of the Government of the
United States, incuding the military and
naval authorities 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 lst day of
January aforesaid, issue proclamation desl
ignating the States, or part of States, if any,
in which the peoI le therein respectively
shall 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 Congress by members
chosen thereto by majority Of the quail.
absence of strong countervailing testimony,
be deemed conclusive evidence that such
State, or the people thereof, is not in rebel
lion against the United States
Now, therefore, |, Abraham Lincoln,
President of the United States, by virtue of
the power in me vested, as Commander in
Chief ofthe army and navy, in time of actual
/. al ,vity ,f ho
ernment of the United States, as tit and
necessary war measure, for the suppressng
of said rebellion, do, on this 1st day of jan
uary, 1868, and in accordance with my pur
pose to publish proclamation at period
of hundred days from the date Of the
first above mentioned order, do designate as
the States or part Of States therein, the
people whereof respectively are this day in
rebellion against the United States, the fol-
lowing. to wit: Arkansas; Texas; Louisi
ana, excepting the Parishes of St. Barnard,
Plaquemine, jefferson, St. Charles, St. James,
Ascension, Assumption, Terre Bounne,
Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin and Orleans,
including the city of New Orleans; Misss'
sippi; Alabama; Florida; Georgia; South
Carolina; North Carolina; Virginia, except
the forty eight counties designated as Wes-
tern Virginia, and the counties of Berkley
Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City
York, Princess Anne and Norfolk, including
the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth, which
excepted parts are for the present left as il
this proclamation were not issued. And by
virtue of the power and for the purpose
aforesaid, do order and declare that al
persons held as slaves within the designated
States and parts of States, are and hence
forth shall be free; and that the Executive
Government of the United States, including
the military and naval authorities, will rec
ognize and maintain the freedom of such
persons; and hereby enjoin upon the peo
pie so declared TO be free to abstain from all
violence unless in necessary self defense
and recommend to them that, in all cases
when allowed, they labor faithfully for real
sonable wages
And further declare and make known