The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-23
The Presidents PROCLAIM alton,
WASHINGTON, Sept. %, 1862.
"a PROCLAMATION.)

"a PROCLAMATION.)
|. 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 praCti-
cally restoring the CONSTITUTIONS relation be-
tween the United States and the people thereof,
in which States that relation is or may be sus-
pended or disturbed
That it is my purpose, upon the next meeting
of Congress, to again recommend the adoption
of a practical measure rendering pecuniary aid
to the free acceptance or rejection OF all the
Slave States, 50 called, the people whereof may
not then be in rebellion against the United
States, and which States may then have volun-
tarily adopted, or thereafter may voluntarily
adopt the immediate or gradual adjustment 0
slavery within their respective limits, and that
the efforts to ~coloniZe persons OF African de-
scent, with their consent, upon the continent or
elsewhere, with the previously obtained consent
Of the governments existing there, will be con-
tinued
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 and thencefor-
ward and forever FREE, and the Executive
Government of the United States, including the
military and naval authority thereof, will rec
ognize ard maintain the freedom of such per-
sons, 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 states and parts of states, if any, in which
the people thereof respectively shall be in re-
bellion 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 cho-
sen thereto at elections wherein a majority of
the qualified voters of such state shall have par
VIII CiiuiA III oIC VI SblO1S COuutCI
vaillng testimony be deemed conclusive evidence
that such state and the people thereof have not
been in rebellion against the United States.
That attention is hereby called TO an Act of
Congress entitled d" An Act to make an Add
tional Article of War;" approved March Is
1862, and which act is in the words and figures
following.
Be ii enacted by The Senate and House Of Re
presentatioeS of the United States of america in
Congress assembled
That hereafter the following shall be promul.
gated as al additional article Of war for the
government Of the army Of the United States
and shall be obeyed and observed as such
ARTICLE.
All officers or persons in the military or nava
service of the United States, are prohibited from
employing any of the force under their respec
tive commands 'or the purpose of returning
tugltlvts from service or labor, who NAV have
esca ped from any persons TO whom such service
or labor is claimed to be due, and anv officer
who shall be found guilty, by " court-martial
OF violating this article, shall be dismissed from
the service.
SEC. 2. And be IL further enacted, That this
act shall take effect from and after its passage
Also 10 The 9th and 10Th sections of an ac
entitled g An Act to suppress instruction, tc
punish treason and rebellion, 10 seize and con
fscate property of rebels and for other pur
poses" approved July 18th, 1862, and which
sections are in the words and figures following
SECT. 9. And lie IL further enacted. Tha
all slaves of persons who shall hereafter be en-
gagged in rebellion against the government o
the United States, or who shall in any way Civ
aid or comfort thereto, escaping from such per
sons and taking refuge within the lines Of tn
army, and all slaves captured from such person
or deserted by them coming under the contro
Of the government of the United States, and al
slaves OF such persons found on, OF being with
in. any place occupied by rebel forces and after
wards occupied by the forces Of the Unite
States shall be deemed captives of war, and sha'
be forever free of their servitude aud not agai
held as slaves.
SEC. 10. And be IL further enacted, That n
slave escaping into any State, Territory or tn
. District of Columbia, from any of the State
/ shall be delivered up or in any way impeded G
hindered of his liberty except for crime or som
2 offence against the laws uniess the person clam
5 ing said fugitive shall first make oath that tn