THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION:

  Whereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation 

was issued by the President of the United States, containing, 

among other things, the following, to wit:



  "That on the 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, 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 maintain the 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 on the 1st day of January aforesaid, 

by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, 

in which the people thereof, 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 in good faith 

represented in the Congress of the United States by members 

chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified 

voters of such States shall have participated shall, in the 

absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive 

evidence that such State and the people thereof are 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 for supressing said 

rebellion, do, on this 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, and in 

accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the 

full period of one hundred days from the first day above mentioned, 

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 wit:



  Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St. Bernard, 

Palquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James, Ascension, 

Assumption, Terrebone, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, 

including the city of New Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, 

Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia (except the 

forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the 

counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Morthhampton, Elizabeth City, York, 

Princess Anne, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and 

Portsmouth), and 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, I 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 I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to 

abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence; and 

I recommend to them that, in all case when allowed, they labor 

faithfully for reasonable wages.



  And I 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 vessels of all sorts in said service.



  And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, 

warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke 

the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor 

of Almighty God.