林肯-解放黑奴宣言

林肯：解放黑奴宣言

THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION:

By the President of the United States of America:

1862

年

9

月

22

日，

一个瘦弱而伟大的总统用颤抖的双手签署了这

份宣言，

他知道虽 然该宣言会激起奴隶主们的反抗，

可能会造成国家南北的分裂。

但为了结束一个资本主义与奴隶制并存的畸形社会，

他用颤抖的双手签了，

虽然

此后他的担心成真了，

而且自己还被同情奴隶制 的蒲斯刺杀了。

但统一后的美利

坚合众国在通往现代化的道路上 一路狂飙，创造了无数现代文明，引领了整个

20

世纪。这个丑 陋而羸弱的总统也成就了美国历史上最伟大的总统。

THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION:

By the President of the United States of America:

A PROCLAMATION

Whereas

on

the

22nd

day

of

September,

A.D.

1862,

a

proclamation

was

issued by the President of the United States, containing, among

other things, the following, to wit:

slaves within any State or 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.

proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in

which the people thereof, respectively, shall then be in rebellion

against the United States; and the fact that any State or the people

thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the

Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections

wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such States shall have

participated shall, in the absence of strong countervailing

testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State and the

people thereof are not then in rebellion against the United States.

Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States,

by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-In-Chief of the

Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion

against the authority and government of the United States, and as a

fit and necessary war measure for supressing said rebellion, do, on

this 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, and in accordance with my

purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one

hundred days from the first day above mentioned, order and designate

as the States and parts of States wherein 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,

Palquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James, Ascension,

Assumption, Terrebone, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, 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, Morthhampton, Elizabeth City, York,

Princess Anne, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and

Portsmouth), and which excepted parts are for the present left

precisely as if this proclamation were not issued.

And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order

and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated

States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be, free; and

that the Executive Government of the United States, including the

military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain

the freedom of said persons.

And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to

abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence; and I