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within their respective spheres OF service, the act
| and sections above recited.
| And the Executive will in due time recommend
that all citizens of the United States who shall
| have remained loyal thereto throughout the re-
bellion shall (pon the restoration OF the constl,
| tutional relation between the United States and
their respective states rnd people, if that relation
shall have been suspended or disturbedD be com.
| pensated for all losses by acts of the United
| States including the loss Of slaves.
In witness whereof, have hereunto set my
hand, and caused OF the seal of the United States
| to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this twen-
ty-sccond day of September. in the year
H. 81 of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-two, and of the Independence
of the United States the eighty seventh.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President:
William II. Seward, Secretary of State.
| No. H.
| BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA:
| A PROCLAMATION
Whereas, on the twenty second day of Septem
| Der, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and siXty-twO, proclamation WAS issued
by the President of the United States, containing
among other things, the following, to wit:
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 or designated part of a 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, including the military and
naval authority thereof, will recognize and main
| tain tue freedom of such persons, and will do no
act Or acts to repress such persons, or any of
them. in any efforts they may make for their
actual freedom.
| ''That the Executive will, the first day of
JanuaIy aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the
states and parts of states, if any, in which the
people thereof respectively, shall then be in re-
belion against the United States and the fact
that any state, or the people thereof, shall on
that day be i'll good faith represented in the Con
gress of the United States, by members chosen
thereto at elections wherein majority of the
qualified voters of such states shall have partici
pated shall, in the absence OF strong countcrvail
| ing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence
| that such state, and the people thereof are not
then in rebellion against the United States"
| Now, therefore, l. Abraham Lincoln President
of the United States, by virtue OF the power in
me vested commander-in-chic Of the army
and navy of the United States, in time of actual
armed rebellion against the authority and Gov
ernment of the United States and fit and
necessary measure for supprcssing said re-
bellion, do, on this first day of January, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sxty-three, and i'm accordance with my pur-
pose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full
period of one hundred daps from the day first
above mentioned, ordor 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 wit
Arkansas Texas, Louisiana, (except the parishes
of st. Bernard, Plaquemines. Jefferson st. John,
ST. Charles st. James, Ascension, Assumption,
Terre Bonne, Lafourche, st. Mary, ST. Martin and
Orleans, including the city of New Orleans, Mis-
siSsippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Caro-
lima, North-C Carolina, and Virginia, Except the
forty eight counties designated as West Virginia,
and also the counties of Berkeley Accomac,
Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess
Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk
and Portsmouth,) and which excepted parts are
for the present left precisely as if this proclama-
ton 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 said designated states and
parts of states are: and henceforward 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 hereby enjOin upon the people so de-
clared ia be free to abstain from all violence, un-
less in necessary self defence; and recommend
to them that, in all cases when allowed. they la
Dor faithfully for reasonable wages.
| And l further declare and make known that
such persons, of suitable condition, will be re-
ceived into the armed service Of the United
States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and
other places, and to man vessels OF all sorts in
| said service.
And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an
act of Justice, warranted by the Constitution up
| on military necessity, / invoke the considerate
judgement of mankind and the gracious favor of
Almighty God
hand and caused the seal of the United States to
be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this first
IL. ST. one thousand eight hundred and sixty
three, and of the Independence of tile
United States of America the eighty
seventh.
ABRAHAM. LINCOLN
BY the President:
William Fl. Seward, Secretary OF State.
| No 49,
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
| AMERICA:
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas objects of interest to the United States
require that the Senate should be convened at
| twelve o'clock on the fourth of March next, to
! receive and act upon such communications as
| may be made to IT on the part of the Executive: ::
! Now, therefore, l. Abraham Lincoln, President
of the United States, have considered it to be my
duty to issue this my proclamation, declaring
that an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate
ton of business at the Capitol, in the city of
Washington, on the fourth " OF March next, at
! twelve O'clock at noon on that day. oil whlch ali
who shall at that time be entitled 10 act as MEM
| bers of that body are hereby required to take
| notice.
| United States, at Washington, the twen-
| ty-elghth day of February, in the year of
IL. S. our Lord one thousand eight hundred
aud sixty-three, and of the Independence
of the United States of America the
| eighty-seventh.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President:
William II. Seward, Secretary OF State.
| No. 10.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA:
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, the Seuate of the United States, de-
voutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and
Just Government of Almighty God, in all the
affairs of men and of nations, has by resolu:
tiun requested the President to designate and
set apart day for National prayer and humilia-
tion:
And whereas it is the duty of nalions az we'll
as of men, to own their dependence upon the
uverruing power of God, to confess their sins
and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with
assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to
mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime
truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and
proven by all history, that those nations only are
blessed whose God is the Lord:
And, insomuch as we know that by His divine
law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to
puuishments and chastisemeDts, in this world
may we not justly fear that the awful calamity cd
!, civil war, which now desolates the land, may bs
but a punishment inflicted upon us Tor our pre-
sumpfuous sins, TO the needful end Of orr na
tional reformation as d whole People We have
been the recipients of the choicest bounties o