The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1862-09-27
THE WAR;.

lHE w All.
Glorious News! Il
The year Of Jubilee has. Come :
abraham Lincoln Proclaims Freedom to all
slaves in theiIhsurrectionar States and
parts Of States, on the let day Of January,
1863.
Sound the loud timbrel DER Egypts dark sea-
| Jehovah hath triumphed, his people are free."
By the President Of the United States of
america.
Il PROCLAMATION
1. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of
the United States Of America, and. Com
mander-in- Chief ofthe Army and Navy
thereof, hereby proclaim and declare, that,
hereafter as heretofore, the war will be pros
ecuted for the object Of especially restoring
the Constitutional relations between the
United States, and the people thereof, in
which States that relation is, or may be
suspended or disturbed that it is my pur-
pose upon the next meeting Of Congress to
again recommend the adoption of practical
measures rendering pecuniary aid to the
free acceptance or rejection Of all the Slave
States so called, the people whereof, may
notthen be in rebellion against the Un; ted
States, and which States may then have
voluntarily adopted, or thereafter may vol
unfairly adopt the immediate or gradual
abolishment Of slavery within their respec
tive limits T; and that the efforts to COLOMBO
persons of African descent, with their con,
sent, upon the continent or elsewhere, with
the previously obtained consent of the G ov-
misunderstanding, 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
State, the people whereof shall be in re-
bellion against the United States, shall be
thenceforward and forever free, and the Ex-
ecutive Government of the United States,
including the military and naval authority
thereof, will recognize and maintain the free
dom 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 actu-
al freedom; that the Executive, on the first
day Of January, aforesaid, by proclamation,
designate the States and parts of States, if
any, which the people thereof respectively,
shall then be in rebellion against the Uni
ted States, and the fact that any State, or
the people thereof, shall on that day IN good
faith be represented in the Congress of the
United States, by members chosen thereto
at elections, wherein majority of the quail
flied voters Of such State shall have partci.
pated, shall in the absence Of counteravail-
ing testimony be deemed conclusive evidence
that such State and the people thereof, have
not been. in rebellion against the United
States; that all attention is hereby called to
an Act of Congress, entitled an Act to make
additional Articles OF War, approved March
18th, 1862, and which act be is the words
and figures following
BE 1t enacted By the Senate and House of
Representatives Of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That here
after the following shall be promulgated as
an additional article of war for the govern.
ment of the army of the Uuited States ard
shall be obeyed and observed as such arti-
Gle: All officers or persons in the military
or naval service of the United States are
prohibited from employing any of the forces
under their respective commands for the
purpose Of returning fugitives from service
or labor who may have escaped from any
person to whom such services or labor is
claimed to be due; and any officer who shall
be found guilty by courtsmartial of viola
ting this article shall be dismissed from the |
service. @
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That
this act shall take effect, from and after its
passage.
Also the 9th and 10th sections of an act
entitled an act to suppress instruction. to
punish treason and rebellion, to seize and
conffscate property of rebels, and for other
approved July 18th 1862, and
which sections are in the words and figures
following:
SECS And be 1t further enacted, That
all slaves ofpersons who shall hereafter be
engaged in rebellinn against the Govern
ment of the United States, or who shall in
any way give aid or comfort thereto escap.
from such persons and taking refuge within
the lines Of the army, and all slaves captur-
ed from such persons or deserted by them
and coming under the control of the Gov
eminent of the United States, and all slaves
Of such persons on or being within any
place occupied by rebel forces and after
wards occupied by the forces of the United
States, shall be deemed captures of war and
shall be forever free of their servitude and
not again be held as slaves.
SEC. 10. And be 1t further enacted, That
no slave escaping into any State, Territory
or. tho District of Columbia, from any of the
States shall be delivered up or in any way
impeded or hindered of his liberty, except
for crime or some offense against the laws
unless the person claiming said fugitive
shall first make oath that the person to
whom the labor or service of such fugitives
is alleged to be due is his lawful owner and