Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1863-01-10
EMAxc1PArIoN pRooLAmAT,oN.

| ........ .....I WASHINGTON January lst ls05.
WHEREAS, on the twenty-second day oi
September in the year of our Lord eighteen
hundred and sixty-two, Proclamation was
issued by the President Of the United States
contsining among other things The following
to wit That on the first day of Jannary,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as
! slaves within any state or designated part
! of State the people whereof shall then be
in rebellion against the United States, shall
be then. henceforth, and forever free, and
the executive government of the United
States, iDcllding the military and naval
authority thereof will recognize and main.
tain the freedom Of such persons, ard will
do no act to repress 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
issue Proclamation designating the States
and parts of States, if any, in which the
people tberiu respectively shall then be in
rebellion against the United States, and
The fact that any State or the people there.
OF shall on that day be in good faith rep
resented in the Congress of the United
States by members chosen thereto at the
election wherein a majority of the qualified
voters of such states shall have participat-
ed, shall, in the absence of strong coun.
tervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive
evidence that such state and the people
thereof are not in rebellion against the
United States: -a
Now therefore. /, Abraham Lincoln
President of the United States, by virtue of
the power in me vested as Commander-in.
chief Of of the army and navy in time of
actual armed rebellion against the author.
ity Of the government of the United States,
as q fit and necessary war measure for
suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first
day of January. in the year Of our Lord
1868, and in accordance with my purpose
so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full
period of 100 days from the date of the
frstObove mentioned order, and designate
as the states and parts of states therein,
the people whereof respectively, are this
day in rebellion against the United States,
the following, to wit:
Arkansas Texas Louisiana, except the
Parishes of St. Bernard PInquemnes, JEFF
fersOn, St. John, st. Charles, ST. James,
Ascension, Assumption, Terre Bonne, La
Fourche, ST., Mary, ST. Martin and Or
leans, including the city of New Orleans
Mississippi Alabama Floridu; Geor.
gia South Carolina North Carolina;
and Virginia, except the forty.eight coun.
ties designated as Western Virginia, and
also the counties of Berkley Accomac,
Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Prin
cess Anne and Norfolk, including the
city of Norfolk and Portsmouth which ex
cepted parts are for the present left precisely
as if this proclamation were not issued
And by virtue Of the power and for the
purpose aforesaid, do order and declare
that all persons held as slaves within desig-
mated States aud parts of States are, and
henceiorwa d shall be- free, and that the
executive Government of the United States,
including the military and naval author.
tiles thereof will recognize and maiutain
the freedom of said persons, and / hereby
enjoin upon the people so declared to be
free to abstain from all violence, unless n
necessary selfGcfense, and / recommend 10
them that in all cases when 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
United States to garrison forts, positions,
stations, and other places, and to man YES.
sells of all sorts in said service, and upon
this sincerely believed to be an act Of
justice, warranted by the constitution and
upon military necessity, invoke the con
sderate judgment of mankind and the
gracious favor of Almighty God
e. In witness whereof have hereunto set
my hand aud caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed
Done at the City of Washington: this
first day of January, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and six.
~ three, and of the independence of the
United States of America, the eighty.sev.
tDth. ..t. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
VIZ II. SEWARD, Secretary of State.