HIGHLY IMPORTANT: A Proclamation by the President of the United States; A DECREE OF EMANCIPATION (9/23/1862)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 9/23/1862

[Homer_J_Simpson]

WASHINGTON, Monday, Sept. 22.

By the President of the United States of America:

A PROCLAMATION.

I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States of America, and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare, that hereafter, as heretofore, the war will be prosecuted for the object of practically restoring the constitutional relation between the United States and the people thereof in which States that relation is, or may be suspended or disturbed; that it is my purpose, upon the next meeting of Congress, to again recommend the adoption of a practical measure tendering pecuniary aid to the free acceptance or rejection of all the Slave States so called, the people whereof may not then be in rebellion against the United States, and which States may then have voluntarily adopted, or thereafter may voluntarily adopt, the immediate or gradual abolishment of Slavery within their respective limits; and that the efforts to colonize persons of African descent with their consent, upon the Continent or elsewhere, with the previously obtained consent of the governments existing there, will be continued.

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 any 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 first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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Highly Important: A Proclamation by the President of the United States – 2-3
The Latest War News: A Raid of Stuart’s Cavalry Across the Potomac at Williamsport – 3
The War in Maryland: Another Account of the Great Battle of Antietam – 3-6
Important from Kentucky: Defeat of Bragg’s Rear Guard at Horse Cave – 6
The Battle of Iuka: Another Dispatch from Gen. Grant – 6
Important from Memphis: The Location of the Rebel Forces under Villipigue and Breckinridge – 6
The Guerrillas in Missouri: Quantrel’s Bands Pursued and Dispersed – 6-7
The Surrender of Harper’s Ferry – 7
Editorial: The President’s Proclamation – 7
The Movements of the Rebel Army – 7
Editorial: Condition of the Rebel Army – 7-8
Editorial: The Alarm at Louisville – 8
Invading Rebel Armies, East and West – A Comparison – 8
The Skedaddle in the Camps at Newark, New-Jersey – 8

[Vermont Lt]

I often wonder why today isn’t considered the real “Juneteenth”?

[Triple]

I wonder why northern states celebrate Juneteenth at all, since slavery in the north and sympathetic areas in the south were specifically excluded from the anti-slavery proclamation.

Curious…

[Homer_J_Simpson]

I often wonder why today isn’t considered the real “Juneteenth”?

Or at least January 1.