The Big blue union. [volume] (Marysville, Kan.) 1862-1866, 1862-09-27
PROCLAIM ALTON
Freeing the slaves of the dislOyal
states.

Freeing the slaves of the dislOyal
states.
Washington, Sept. 22.--By the Presi-
dent of the United States Of America: 1
Abraham Lincoln, President of the Uni
ted States of America, and Commander-in
Chief of the Army and Navy thereof, do
hereby proclaim and declare, that hereaf-
ter, as before, the war win be prosecuted
for the object Of practically restoring the
constitutional relation between the United
States and the people thereof in which
States that relation is or may be suspend
ed or disturbed thatit is my purpose up
on the next meeting of Congress to again
recommend the adoption Of practical
measure rendering pecuniary aid for the
free acceptance orIrejection, of allthe Slave
States so.caIled, the people whereof may
not be in rebellion agains. the United
States, and which States may then have
voluntarily adopted or thereafter may vol
unfairly adopt the immediate or gradual
adjustment of slavery within their respec-
tive limits, and that the efforts to colonize
persons of Africandescent, with their con-
sent, upon the continent or elsewhere
with the previously obtained consent OF
the Governments existing there, will be
continued. s35 ls1t'i 2 i'.' - -
That on the lst day Of January, in the
year of our Lord eighteen and sixty-tnree,
all persons held as Slaves within any State,
or any designated parts of a State, the peo-
ple whereof shall be in rebellion against
the United States, shall then be thencefor-
ward and forever FREE, and the Executive
Government Of the United States, inclu.
ding 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 thsm, in the efforts they may make for
their actual freedom.
Tha, the Executive will, on the LIST day
of January, aforesaid, designate by proc
lsmation the States, and parts of States 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 repre-
sented in the Congress of the United
States, by members chosenTthereto atelec,
tions wherever majority Of the qualified
voters of such State shall bare participated
shall, in The absence Of strong COULTER
vailing testimony be deemed conclusive ev-
idense that such State and the people
thereof have not been in rebellion against
the United States. ar .sasieq 1.s 81
That attention is hereby called to an sct
of Congress entitled an act to make an ad-
ditional article of var, approved March Ii,
1862, which act is in the words and fig
VA 80 AAS"-AAos' 50 fsseN 9fff., 3-Jtsi tast
Be It enacted By the Senate and House of
Representatives Of the United States in
Congress assembled,
That hereafter the following shall be pro.
muIsated as N additionai article of war,
for The governmentof the armies Of the
United States, end ahall be oheyed and OBJ
served as such =, !, -gSza .4s4 sss s.
Article LIST. An officers Of per.ons in
the military or naval service Of tie United
States, are prohibited from employing asy
of the forces under their respective cons
mands for the purposs Of returning fos,,-
,ives from service o. labor, who may have
esoaued from any sersou. to whom .each
service. or labor, IS elsimed 70 be due, and
any officer who shall be found guilty by :, :,
..ovrt martial Of viiSlating this aricle, fhall
be dismissed from he service 5..ss ear
Article ID. And b j. further enacisd'l
That this act shall take effect, from and
after its passage.
Also. to the 9th and 10Th section OF an &C.
.a,;,led an act to suppress insafrection end