Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-09-30
EMANCIPATION OF THE SLAVES.
Proclamation by the President oftbe
United States.

Proclamation by the President of the
United STATES.
Enforcement OF the COnGscafion
Act.
WASHINGTON, September, 90, 1862.
By the President of the United States Of
America.
PROCLAMATION.
|, Abraham Lincoln, President of the
United States of America and commander
in-chief of the army and navy thereof,
hereby p oclaim and declare that hereaf-
ter, as heretofore, the war will be prosecu-
ted for the object of practically restoring
the constitutional relations between the
United States and the people thereof, in
which States that relation is or NAV be
suspended or disturbed; that it is nv
purpose, upon the next meeting of Con-.
gross, to again recommend the adoption Of
rfctlcal measure, rendering pecuniary
aid to the free acceptance or rejection of
all the Slave States. so-called the peoplc
whereof may not then be in rebellion
against The United State, and which States
may then have voluntarily adopted, or
thereafter may voluntarily adopt the inn
mediate or gradual adjustment Of slavery
within their respective limits, and that
the efforts to cOlOniZe persons Of African
descent, with their consent, upon the con-
tinent or elsewhere, with the previously
obtained consent of the governments ex-
listing there, will be continued; thai on
the first of January. in the year ofour Lord
one thousand eight hundred aud sixty
three, all persons held as slaves within
any State or any designated part of a
State. the people whereof shall be in re-
bellIon against the United States, shall be-
thenccforth and forever free and the exc
cutive government of the United States,
including the military and nava. author:-
ty 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 NAV make
for actual freedom; that tie executive
will on the first day of January aforesaid
by proclamation designate the States and
parts of States, if any in which the peo-
pie thereof respectively shall then lie in
rebellion against the United States, and
the fact that any State or,the,peopIe thereof
shall on that day be in good faith repre-
scented In the Congress of the United
States by members chosen thereto at cleo
tons wherein majority Of the qualified
voters of such State shall have participa-
ted. shall in the absence Of strong COINS
tervaIlIng testimony be deemed conclusive
evidence that such Slate and the people
thereof have not been in rebellion against
the United States that attention is hereby
called to an act Of Congress entitled IAN
act to make an additional article of war;
approved March 18Th. 1852. and which
act is in the words aud figures following:
BE Il enacted b. the .S,naie anil House
Of Representatives. IF tie Unif.d SUITES in
(auss-gge nsSgtgllg.T Hh.t A.
following shah be promulgated as an adj.
ditional article of war for the government
of the army of the United States and shall
he obeyei and observed as such-"all on
GERS 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 frcn service or la
Dor who may have escaped from any perS
son 10 whom such service or labor i,
claimed TO be due. and any officer who
shall be found guilty Of court martial
of violating this article, shall dismissed
from the service.
SEC. 2. And be IL further enacted. That
this act shall take effect from and after its
passage.
Also to the 6 IN and 10Th sections of an
act enetled An act to suppress insurrec-
ton, 10 punish treason and rebellion. Ia
seize and c1nfscate the property Of rebels
and for other purposes" approved July
l9th, Ice. and hich sections are in tLese
WORDS and figures following:
SEC. 9. And be Il further en4eted. That an
slaves Of per~Ons who shall hereafter DO
engaged Ia rebellion against the govern
ment OF the United States, or who shall in
any way give aid or comfort thereto. escs-
ping from such persons aud takin, refuge
within the lines OF the army and all slaves
captured from such persons or deserted bv
them and coming under the control of ths
government of the United States. and all
slaves Of such persons being within any
place occupied by rebel lUrces and after,
wards occupied by the forces Of the United
States, shall be deemed captures of war,
and shall be forever free of the seryitudo
aud not again held as slaves.
SEC. 10. dad Be- a. further enacted, That
no slave escaping into any State. Terrific
~ or the District of Columbia, from any Of
the States shall BE- delivered up or in
any way impeled Or hinder cd Of his liberty
except for crime or scEle Ofense against
the laws, unless the person claiming said
fugitive shall first make oath that the per-
son to whom the la Dor or service.f such
owner. and has not been in arms against
the United States in the present rebellion.
nor IN any way given aid OF comfort there
ia and no pers n engaged la the militarv
or naval service Of the United States shall.
under any pretense whatever, assume TO
decide on the validity Of the claim of sny
person to the serTice or labor OF any other
person, or surrender up any such persian
to the claimant, on pain Of being dismissed
from the service.
And d. hereby enjoin upoa and order all
persons engaged in tie military and naval
service Of the United States to observe.
obey and enforce, within their respective
spheres Of service, the act and sections
above recited. And the executive will in
due time recommend that all citizens of
United States, who shall have remained
loyal thereto throughout the REBELLION, shall
upon the restoration Of the constitutional
relations between the United States and
thsir respective States and people, if these
relations shall have been suspended o; dis.