Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-01-09
LINCoLNS PROCLAMATION.
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Adiutant and Inspector General.
WAsHINGroN, Jan. LIST, 1868.

PROCLAMATION.
Whereas On the twenty second day Of September,
in the year of our Lord thousand eight hundred
and sixty-two, Proclamation was issued by the
President Of the United States, containing among
other things, the following to witt
THAT on the first day Of January, in the year OF
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty
three all persons held as slaves within any State
designated part of State the people whereof shall
then be in Rebellion against the United States, shall
be then, thenceforward and forever Free and the
Executive Government of the United States, incud-
ing the military and naval authority thereof will
recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons
and will do act acts to repreSs such persons,
or any of them, in any effort they may make for
their active freedom
THAT the Executive will on the first day Of JAN
uary aforesaid by proclamation designate the
States and parts of States if any, in which the peo
pie therein, respectively, shall then be in rebellion
against the United States, and the fact that any
State and the people thereof SHALL on that day. be
in good faith represented in the Congress Of the
United States, by members chosen thereto at cleo.
tons wherein majority Of the qualified voters Of
such State shall have participated, SHALL in the alb
sence Of strong countervang testimony, be deemed
conclusive evidence that such State and the people
thereof not then in rebellion against the United
States"
Now, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of
the United States, by virtue of the power in me
vested as Commander in-Chief 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 a fit and necessary war
measure fol suppresSng the said rebellion, do on
this the first day Of January, in the year Of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty three,
and in accordance with my purpose so to do pub
licy proclaim, for the full period of one hundred
days from the day first above mentioned order and
designate the States and parts of States wherein
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beOn against the United States, the following, to-
wit:
Arkansas Texas, Louisiana Except the parishes
of St Bernard, Plaquemines, jefferson, ST James,
Ascension, Assumption, Terrebonne, Lafourche, St
Martin and Orleans, Gncluding the city Of New Or
leans) Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
South Carolina North Carolina and Virginia Except
the forty. eght COMMITTEES designated as West Virginia
and also the counties Of Berkeley, Accomac North
ampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Anne and
Norfolk and Portsmouth, and which excepted parts
for he present left precisely if the proclama
ton were not issued.
Ard by virtue of the power and for the purpose
aforesaid, DO order and declare that all persons
held slaves within the said designated States and
parts Of said States are and henceorward shall be
free; and that the Executive Government Of the
United States, including the military and naval
thOrties thereof, will recognize and maintain the
freedom of said persons
And hereby enjOin upon the people so declared
to be free to abstain from violence unless in neces-
sary selfdefence and | recommend to 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 vessels of all sorts in the
said service. And upon this act sincerely believed
to be an act Of justice warranted by the Constitu
ton, upon military necessity, invoke the consider
ate judgment Of mankind and the gracious favor of
Almighty God.
In witness whereof have hereunto
!, I set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed
~ Done at the city of Washington, this
the first day Of January, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three and of
the Independence Of the United States of America
the eighty seventh.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President:
WN Il. SEWARD, Secretary of State