New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-02
Slaves in the Revolted
States Proclaimed
Forever Free.
Parts of Louisiana and Virginia
Excepted from the Effects
of the Proclamation.
WASHINGTON, Jan. !, 1868.
BY the President OF INC United states 81
AIacrica-A Proclamation.


Aucrica-A Proclamation.
Whereas. On tie twenty second day of Sep
TENDER, in the year of our Lord one thousand
scbt hundred and sixty two, Proclamation
was issued by the President of the United
States containing among other things the fol-
loving to.wit:
"Tbat on the First Day Of January, in the
wear of our Lord One thousand Eight Hun
3red and Sky. three, all persons held as Saves
within any State, or designated part ola State,
he people whereof shall there be in rebellion
AGAINST the Uuned States, shall be then thence
forth and FOREVER FREE, end the Executive
Government of tie United States, including the
Military and Naval authorities thereof, will
recognize and maintain the freedom Of such
persons. and vii do no act or acts 10 rcpress
sacb persons, or any Of them, in any effort
ibey may n, ke for their actual freedom.
THAT the Executive viii, on the first
day Of January aforesaid, b. Pro,lRmlton,
de.ir.a.e tie States and parts Of States, if any
in which the people therein respectively shal! then
be 10 Rebellion against the United States aud the
feet that any State, the people thereof s'all On
that day be in good faith represented in The Con-
sress Of tie United States by Members chosen
thereto at elections wherein majority OF the
qualified voters Of such States shall have par!lc.-
mated shall in the absence of strong cOunteryai!-
irg testimony, he deemed conclusive evidence
that such State and the people thereof arc Ley
,hcn in Rebellion against tie United States
Now therefore I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
President Of the United States, BY virtue u
The power in me vested as Commander-in-
Cllef Of tie Army and Navy Of the United
States in time Of actual rned Rebellion
against the authority aud Government OF the
United States, aud as fit and necessary war
measure for suppreasing said Rebellion, CO. on
this first Gay of January in the year OF our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty
three, aud in accordance with my purpose 30
10 do publicly proclaimed for tEe full period OF
ana hundred days from the day OF TIE first
aforementioned 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 following, to vat;
ARKANSAS,
TEXAS,
LOUISIANA
errept ,be Parishes o. st. Bernard, Palque'
mines. Jefferson, st. JEAN, st. Charles st.
James. Ascension, Assumption, Terfe Bonhe'
lafourcf, st. Mary, st. Martin and Orleans
ipclud;aQ tie City Of New Orleans.
MISSISSIPPI,
ALABAMA,
FLORIDA,
GEORGIA,
SOUTH CAROLINA, and
VIRGINIA
except he forty-eight counties designated as
West Virginia, and also the counties OF berkl%'
Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City YORK;
Princes Ann, and Norfolk, including the cites
OF Norfolk aud Portsmouth. and which except
Cd parts are, for the present, left precisely a'
If this Proclamation were not Issued.
Mud by virtue Of the power and Tor tne Pif-
pose aforesaid, ] do order aud declare that
ALL PERSONS HELD AZ SLAVES
within said designated States and parts OF States
AXE, AND nENCEPORWARD
Shall be Free!
and that the Executive Government OF the
United States, including the Military
and Naval Authorities thereof will recognize
and maintain the freedom Of said persons.
And herby epjoin upon the people so de-
clared to be free, to abstain from all violence
unless in necessary sefdefense, aud recon-