Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1863-01-07
RmEszDRNT"g PROCLAMATION,
WAsats0ToE, Jsn. lat. 1853.

ss WAsatsoToE, Jun. lat. 1858.
/, the President of the United States
Of America -@ e*a
Whereas, On the ga day Of SsptsnhaR,
la the year of our Lord, 1861, pEecla- |
nation was issued by the President OF
the United States, containing, smong |
other thiags, the follswiag, to-wit:
That on tha Rrsf day Of January, In |
the year Of ear Lord one shoasand eight
hundred and sixsy three, all persons held
90 Alavss withia any State or designated
part Of y State, the people shaxsof shall
then be IN rsbellion against the United
States, shall be then haneeforth and for
ever free, and the executive government
Of the Unissd States In Washingson, and
the military and naval armies thereof,
will recognize and maintAia the freedom
of such persons, or any OF than, In any
effoFt they may make for THAR actual
freedom. That the Executive will, on
the fEst day Of January, aforesaid, issue
q proclamation designating she States
and parts OF States, II any, In which the
people therein respectively shall be in
: rebellion againrt the United States, and
the fact that any State or the people
thereof, shall On thai day, be in good
faith represented In the Congress Of the
United States by Members OF Congress
elected thereto at elections wherein ma
: iority Of the qualified voters Of such
Il State shall have participated, shall, In
the absence OF stronger eontraoiesing ter
timony, be decided "a conclusive evil
d danee that Of such State, and the p&opls
. thereof are not in rebellion against The
i United States.
Nos, therefore, /, Abraham Liaeela,
, President Of the United States, By viR'
l. tue OF the poser In me vested as Com
10 mands- in-Chief of the Army and Navy
N 10 time Of actual armed rebellion agains
the authority of the Government Of th
> United Ssates, at and necessary va
10 measures for suppsessinssing said rebel
10 lion, do, On this lss day Of January, Il
a the year of our Lord sightesn hundre'
and sixty-three, and in accordance Wit
nay purposes 50 to do publicly proclaim
10 cd for the psriod of 100 days from th
E. date Of the Grss above messioned. orda
,, and designate as tbs States and parts d
. States therein and the people thereof
respectively, are this dAy in rebellion
!" DO witt
to Arkansas, Texas, LoaiEiana4-sxcsr
the parishes Of St. Bernard, PlaqasmsnI
Jefferson, ST. John, ST. Charles, s.
70 James, Ascension, Assumption, Ter
r Beaunl, La Fouochs, St. Mary, St. MAJ
Ia. tin al Orlsaas, Including the city I
New Orleans -- Mississippi, Alabami
. Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Nort
en- Carolina, and Virginia, except the forty
no eight counties designated as West VII
q. ginia, and also The counties Of Berkle,
"A Aecomae, Northampton, Elizabeth CIT,
York, Princess Anne, and Norfolk, incll
lea ding the cities Of Norfolk and Port
mouth, which excepted ports are for Il
len prssent left precisely - If this proclaim
-, tion were NOS issued, and By virtue of Il
power and for the purpose aforesaid, 1
we order and declare THAI all persons held
id slaves within the designated States ~
sst parts OF States, are, and heaeeforwal
an shall be free and that the Execusi,
Government of the United States, incil
us ding the military and naval authoriti
or Thereof, will recognise and maintain d
'or freedom ct said peFsons, and | herel
sa- aujoin upon the people declared 60 be fr
= to abstain from all violence unless in "a
A' eessary self-defenoe; and | resommei
sas 70 them that la all oases when alIowu
he they labor faithfully for reasonable VI
"a Yges; and further declare and saa.
known, that such persons, of saisah
w. condision, will be resolved into the arm
'ad ssgvies of the United States 10 garrisl
the forts, positions, stations and other plsss
led and to man vsssals ef eli sarss 10 -
xva services and upon this sincerely esliev