Litchfield enquirer., 1863-01-08
WHOLE NO. 1864
The Presidents EmanUpation
 Proclamation
WAsHIEoses, .JAy. lsr, 1868. By ths President cf the United Statss cf Amsriea,
 A PROCLAMATION.


 By ths President ef the United Statss cf Amsriea,
 A PROCLAMATION.
 Whereas, on the 22d day of September, in the year ofour Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two Proclamation was issued by the President of the United States containing. among other things the following, to wit: That on the first day of January, in the year or our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ,s;1ty4three, all persons held as slaves within auy State or desig- mated part of State, the people whereof shall then be in rebell on against tae United States, shall be then, thencsforth. and f rever free. and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority there- of will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to re. press such persons or any of them in any effort they may make for their actual freedom. That the Executive will, 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 tho United States by members chosen thereto. at elections wherein a majority of the qualified vo-i ters of such State shall have participated, shall in the absence of strong countervailng testimO- ny be deemed conclusive evidence that such State and the people thereof are not then in the United States. .F
 Now, therefore, Abraham Lincoln, Presi- dento the United States, by virtue of the pow CT in me vested, as Commanders Oh et of the army and navy of the United States. in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as c fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, 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 pur- pose so to do, publi proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days from the day first above mentioncd, order and designate as the States wherein the people thereof respectively in rebellion against the United States, the fol. lowing, to wit. Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, except the parishes of St. Bernard. Plaeque- mines. St. Charles. St. James, Ascension, As- sumption, Terre Bonne, Lafouriche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the city of New Orleans, Mississippi. Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina. and Virginia, except the forty eight counties desig. mated as West Virginia. and also the counties of Rerkey, Accomac. Northampton. EIizabeth City, York Princess Ann, and Norfolk. inclu- ding the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth. md which excepted parts are for the present leit precisely as if this proclamation were not is- sued, and by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid | do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designn- ted States and parts of States arg. and hence- forward shall be free, and the. Executive |01- ernm elt of the United States, incIuIi1f iI- military and naval authorilits thereof WI -.- cognize and maintain the freedom 0f said t1I- sons :; and enjoin upon the people 90 doclaot to be free, to abstai from al: yivlenes ahIo<s '1 necessary selfdefence, and I reconHtn1 |1 them that in Il cases when allowed lte} I.1t| faithfully for reasonable wages, and I l1HL.< declare and make known thss eucis fIr@40. 0 suitable condition will he t1o1II1I 8|I ||| armed service of the Unite4 Sla.48 Ie 10I|||*0 torts positions statinns, fssd other IItl.s. .II to man vessels of all svrtt ini said 1eff'c1. 1.| upon this act sincerely beliafe5 io I Y. 54' q justice warraied by the Consiituti0u HL.a Mi|'. lary necessity. invoke the considtfA,4 j4||.- ment of mankind, aud the Eracioas Is.ef 1f Almighty God.
 In witness whereof, have hefsuHi1 ts3 .f hand. and caused the seal of the UhIt.i t,s.. to be affixed.
 Done at the city of Washington, th's 6rl| 3. of January, in the year ot our Lord ens Iz sand eight hundred and sixty-three 1I1 ~ of the United 6tates oI .U.| the eighty-seventh.
 ABRAHAM LrNf1tl
 By the President,
 WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of sta.e.