White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1863-01-08
THE YEAR OF JUBILEE.
Proclamation of the President.
WAsH1xorox. Jan. l. 1868.

Proclamation of the President.
WAsHrxoroN, Jan. l, 1868.
PROCLAMATION By THE PRESIDENT OF TIE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
WuEsrAs On the 22d day Of Sep
tember. in the Year Of Our Lord, 1862.
a Proclamation was issned by the Presi-
dent of The United States, containing
among other things the following. to-wit:
Thst on the 1st day of January. in the
Year of Our Lord. 1868. all persons held
as slaves within any State or designated
parts Of State. the people thereof shall
then be in rebellion against the United
States, shall be then henceforth and for
ever free. and the Executive Government
of the United States. including the naval
and military authority thereof, will re-
cognize 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 actu-
al freedom. That the Executive will. on
the first day of Jaauary, aforesaid, issue
proclamation designating the States and
parts Of States. if any in which the peo-
Pile 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 represented
in the Congress of the United States by
members chosen thereto at elections
wherein majority Of the qualified voters
of such States shall have participated,
and shall in the absence of strong coun-
tervailing testimony, be deemed conclu-
sive evidence that such State and the peo-
pie thereof, are not in rebellion against
the United States.
Now, therefore. l, Abraham Lincoln,
President of the United States, by virtue
of the power in me vested as Comman-
der-in-Chief of tho Army and Navy in
time of actual armed rebellion against
the authority of the Government of the
United States. as ft and necessary war
measure, for suppressing said rebellion.
do On this first day of January, in the
Year of Our Lord, 1868. and in accor-
dance with my purpose SO to do public
ly proclaim for the full period Of one hun
dred days from the date OF the first above
mentioned order. and designate as tho
States and parts of States wherein the
people thereof respectively, are this day
in rebellion against the United States,
the following. to-wit: Arkansas. Texas.
Louisiana. Except the parishes of La
Bernard. PIaquemine. Jefferson, St.
Johns, Sachas, st. James, Ascension,
Assumption, Terre Bonne. La Fourche,
St. Mary's, St. Martins and Orleans.
including the city of New Orleans y
mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
South Carolina. North Carolina. and
Virginia, (except the forty-eight Coun-
ties designated as Western Virginia, and
also the six Counties of Berkiey. Acco-
mac. Northampton. Elizabeth City. York,
Princess Anne and Norfolk. including
tho cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth.
which excepted 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 the designated States
re.and henceforward shall be, free, and
that the executive Government of the Uni
ted States, including the military author
tiles there. will recognize and maintain,
the freedom of said persons and here
by enjoin upon the people SO declared to
be free, to abstain from all violence. un-
less, in necessary self-defsncc, and l rec
ommend to them, that in all cases when
allowed. they labor for reasonable wages.
l further declare and make known that
such persons of suitable condition will be
received into the armed service of the Uni
ted States, to garrison forts. positions in
States. and other places and to man ves-
sells of all sorts in said service. And
as it is sincerely believed to be an act of
Justice warranted by the Constitution upon
military necessity, envoke the consider
ate judgment Of mankind and the gra-
cious favor of Almighty God. In wit
ness thereof I have hcreunto set my hand
and caused the seal of the United States
to be affixed.
Done at the City OF Washington. this
first day of January, 1868. and of the
independence of the United States Of
America the S7th.
By the President.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
", III. SEWARD. Secretary of State.