LAD #16- Emancipation Proclamation

This proclamation was issued on September 2, 1862 and stated that on January 1st all persons held as slaves within any State where the people rebelled against the U.S. are now and forever free. Also the government and military will recognize these people as free and will do no act to repress them. Any representative from a state sent to the Congress of the U.S. on this day will be evidence that the state no longer rebels against the U.S. Later in the Proclamation Lincoln announces all the states that he will make war against if they do not submit to the Proclamation. Lincoln urges in this proclamation that the newly freed men abstain from all violence unless in self-defense and recommends that they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. He also declares that all people suitable to fight will be put into the armed service of the U.S. to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places. The final statement says that Lincoln sincerely believes this to be an act of justice warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, and that he invokes the considerate judgment of mankind.