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007 - Proclamation of Emancipation · Noted Speeches of Abraham Lincoln

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  Speaker 1: Section seven of Noted Speeches of Ibraham Lincoln, edited by
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  Speaker 1: Aboot Noted Speeches of Ibraham Lincoln, edited by Lilian Marie Briggs.
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  Speaker 1: Section seven Proclamation of Emancipation January first, eighteen sixty three.
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  Speaker 1: Whereas on the twenty second day of September, in the
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  Speaker 1: Year of Our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and sixty two,
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  Speaker 1: a 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 state 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 Lord one thousand,
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred and sixty three, and in accordance with my
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  Speaker 1: purpose so to do publicly proclaimed, for the full period
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  Speaker 1: of one hundred days from the day first above mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: order and designate as the states and parts of States
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  Speaker 1: wherein the people thereof, respectively are this day in rebellion
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  Speaker 1: against the United States, the following to wit, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana,
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  Speaker 1: except the parishes of Saint Bernard, Placulamines, Jefferson, Saint John,
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  Speaker 1: Saint Charles, Saint James, Ascension, Assumption, Terrebonne, La Forche, Saint Marie,
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  Speaker 1: Saint Martin, and Orleans including the city of New Orleans, Mississippi, Alaba, 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, Accomac, 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
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  Speaker 1: afore said, I do order and declare that all persons
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  Speaker 1: held as slaves within said designated states and parts of
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  Speaker 1: States are and henceforth shall be free, and that the
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  Speaker 1: executive Government of the United States, including the military and
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  Speaker 1: naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of
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  Speaker 1: said persons. And I hereby enjoin upon the people so
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  Speaker 1: declared to be free, to abstain from all violence, unless
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  Speaker 1: in necessary self defense. And I recommend to them that,
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  Speaker 1: in all cases, when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages.
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  Speaker 1: And I further declare and make known that such persons
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  Speaker 1: of suitable condition will be received into the armed service
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  Speaker 1: of the United States, to garrison forts, positions, stations, and
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  Speaker 1: other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in
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  Speaker 1: said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be
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  Speaker 1: an act of justice warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity,
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  Speaker 1: I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious
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  Speaker 1: favor of Almighty God in testimony whereof I have hereunto
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  Speaker 1: set my name and caused the Seal of the United
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  Speaker 1: States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington,
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  Speaker 1: this first day of January, in the year of our
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  Speaker 1: Lord one thousand, eight hundred and sixty three, and of
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  Speaker 1: the Independence of the United States, the eighty seventh l
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  Speaker 1: s by the President Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward, Secretary
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  Speaker 1: of State. End of Section seven,