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The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1863., [Electronic resource], Further from the North. (search)
ein 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. James, Ascension, Assumption, Terrebonne, Lafourche, St. Mattin, 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, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Amie, and Norfolk and Portsmouth,) and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if the proclamation were not issued. And by firing of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within the said designated States, and paris of said States, are, and henceforward shall be, free; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval