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Abraham Lincoln Emancipation Proclamation January 1, 1863 · Gil I Am

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  Speaker 1: January first, eighteen sixty three, a transcription by the President
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  Speaker 1: of the United States of America a proclamation, Whereas on
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  Speaker 1: the twenty second day of September, in the year of
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  Speaker 1: Our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and sixty two, a
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  Speaker 1: proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing,
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  Speaker 1: among other things, the following, to wit, that on the
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  Speaker 1: first day of January, in the year of Our Lord
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  Speaker 1: one thousand, eight hundred and sixty three, all persons held
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  Speaker 1: as slaves within any state or designated part of a State,
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  Speaker 1: the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the
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  Speaker 1: United States, shall be then thenceforward and forever free. And
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  Speaker 1: the executive Government of the United States, including the military
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  Speaker 1: and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom
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  Speaker 1: of such persons, and will do no act or acts
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  Speaker 1: to repress such persons or any of them, in any
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  Speaker 1: efforts they may make for their actual freedom. That the
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  Speaker 1: Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid by proclamation,
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  Speaker 1: designate the states and parts of states, if any in
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  Speaker 1: which the people thereof, respectively, shall then be in rebellion
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  Speaker 1: against the United States. And the fact that any state
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  Speaker 1: or the people thereof, shall on that day be in
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  Speaker 1: good faith represented in the Congress of the United States
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  Speaker 1: by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of
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  Speaker 1: the qualified voters of such states shall have participated, shall,
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  Speaker 1: in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive
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  Speaker 1: evidence that such state and the people thereof, are not
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  Speaker 1: then in rebellion against the United States. Now Therefore, I,
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  Speaker 1: Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of
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  Speaker 1: the power in me vested as Commander in Chief of
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  Speaker 1: the Army and Navy of the United States, in time
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  Speaker 1: of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of
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  Speaker 1: the United States, and as a fit and necessary war
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  Speaker 1: measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day
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  Speaker 1: of January, in the year of our life, one thousand,
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred and sixty three, and, in accordance with my purpose,
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  Speaker 1: so to do publicly proclaimed for the full period of
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  Speaker 1: one hundred days from the day first above mentioned, order
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  Speaker 1: and designate as the states and parts of states wherein
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  Speaker 1: the people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against
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  Speaker 1: the United States, the following to wit, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana,
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  Speaker 1: except the parishes of Saint Bernard, Plcamiines, Jefferson, Saint John,
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  Speaker 1: Saint Charles, Saint James, Ascension, Assumption, Terburne, La Fourche, sainta
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  Speaker 1: Mary Say, Martin, and Orleans, including the city of New Orleans, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia except the forty eight
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  Speaker 1: counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomic, Northampton,
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth City, York, Princess Anne, and Norfolk, including the cities
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  Speaker 1: of Norfolk and Portsmouth, and which accepted parts are for
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  Speaker 1: the present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued,
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  Speaker 1: and by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid,
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  Speaker 1: I do order and declare that all persons held as
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  Speaker 1: slaves within said designated states and parts of States, are,
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  Speaker 1: and henceforward shall be free, and that the Executive Government
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  Speaker 1: of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof,
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  Speaker 1: will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. And
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  Speaker 1: I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free,
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  Speaker 1: to abstain from all violence unless in necessary self defense.
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  Speaker 1: And I recommend to them that in all cases, when allowed,
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  Speaker 1: they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. And I further declare
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  Speaker 1: and make known that such persons of suitable condition will
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  Speaker 1: be received into the Armed Service of the United States,
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  Speaker 1: to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to
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  Speaker 1: man vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon
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  Speaker 1: this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice
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  Speaker 1: warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the
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  Speaker 1: considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God,
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  Speaker 1: in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and
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  Speaker 1: caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.
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  Speaker 1: Done at the City of Washington, this first day of January,
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  Speaker 1: in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: and sixty three and of the Independence of the United
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  Speaker 1: States of America, the eighty seventh, by the President Abraham
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  Speaker 1: Lincoln William H. Seward, Secretary of State,