The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1862-10-01

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Emancipation Proclamation by the
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Bg tae President Of the United States Of
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.bsss a,.r A PROCLAMATION, aair y.
/, Abraham Lincoln. President of the Uni
ted States OF America and OoInmandeI 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 practically restoring the consti-
tutional relations between the United States
and the people thereof, in which States that
relation is or may be suspended or disturbed;
thai il is my purpose, upon the next meeting
Of Congress, to again recommend the adop-
ton of practical measure rendering pscu
mary aid to the free acceptance or rejection
OF all the Slave States, SO called, the people
whereof may not then be in rebellion against
the United States, and which States may
then have voluntarily adopted, or thereafter
may adopt, the immediate or gradual abolish.
ment Of slavery within their respective limits;
and that the efforts to colonize persons Of
A lrican, descent, with their consent, upon the
continent or elsewhere, with the previously
OBJ aimed consent OF the governments existing
there, will be coEtinuedt 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 States, or
any designated part of State, the people
whereof shall then be in rebe Hion against
the United States, shall be then ard thence
forward and forever Tree, 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 effects
they may make for their actual freedom; that
the executive win, on the first day OF Janu.'
ary Aforesaid, by proclamation designate the
States and parts OF States, il any, in which
the people thereof respectively sha II 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 oi such
State shall have participated, shall, in the
absence Of strong countervailipg testimony,
|. be deemed conclusive evidence that such
State and the people thereof have not been
in rebelliou against the United States; that
attention is hereby called to an act Of Con.
gress entitled "an act TO make an additional
article of war; approved March Is. 1862,
! and which act is in the words and figures
following:
| Be IL enacted by the Senate and House Of
Representatives Of tie United States Of Amer
! lea, IN C5Rgress assembled: That hereafter
the following shall be promulgated in an sd,
| ditiond article OF war for the government
| OF the army Of the United States, and shall
be obeyed and observed as such:
| aARrtcLE. All officers, or persons in the
military or naval service OF the United States
are prohibited from employing aay OF the
forces under their respective command for
the purpose Of returning fugitives from ser
vice or labor who may have escaped from any
person 10 whom such service or labor Is
claimed to be due, and any officer who shall
be found guilty by court martial of viola
ting this article, shall be dismissed from the
service: ~
SECTION 3D., .Aad be it further enacted,
That this act shall take effect from and after
its passage. sa.sa i1 .. stof ga
/ A so, to the 9th and 10th section Of an
act entitled "an act to uppressllnsurrection,
to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and
confiscate property of rebels and for other
! purposes" approved July l7th, 1852, and
/ II, a Il
| following;
| SECTION 8. AnG 5sstjurther enacted, That
all slaves of persons who shall hereafter be
engaged in rebellion against the Government
Of the United States, or who shall in any
wav give aid or comfort thereto, escaping
from such persons, and taking refuge within
the lines OF the army and all slaves captured
| from such persons, or deserted by them, and
coming under the control of the Govern.
ment OF the United States, and all slaves Of
such persons, on being within any place oc-
cupied by the rebel forces and afterward oc-
cupied by the forces Of the United States
shall be deemed captives Of war, and shall b.
forever free oil their seryitude, and not agar
held as slaves. asl- aa
SECTION 10. A,ad Je It fertAer enacted
That no slave escaping into any State, terri
tory or the District Of Columbia, from any
Of the States, shall be delivered up, or in any
way impeded or hindered of his liberty, ex.
1 cept for crime or some offence against the
laws, unless the person claiming said fugitive
shall first make oath that the person to
whom the labor or service of such fugitive is
alleged to be due, is his lawful owner and
has not been in arms against the United
States in the present rebellion, nor in any
4 way giving aid or comfort thereto; and no
person engaged in the military or naval ser.
Twice of the United States shall, under any
pretense whatever, assume to decide on the
& validy of the claim Of any person to the ser
vice or labor OF any other person, or surren
der. up any such person to the claimant or
pain Of being dismissed from the service.
i And do hereby enjoin upon and order al
persons engaged in the military and nava
I service, of the United States, to observe, obey
and enforce, the act and sections above reci.
ted. And the executive will in due time
I recommend that all citizens of the United
States who shall have remained loyal thereto
throughout the rebelions shall, upon thu
restoration of the constitutional relations o
the United States and their respective State
and people, if the relation shall have beel
suspended or disturbed, be compensated 70
I all losses by the United States, including tn
loss of slaves.
4 In witness whereof have hereunto 50
\ my hand and caused the seal OF the Uni,e
States TO be affixed. Done at tho city o
Il Washington, this the 22d day OF September
in the year Of our Lord one thousand eigh
hundred and sixty.two, and OF the independ
ence Of the United States the eighty'sey
enth. rsga a 3ae ra s =.
I S(Signed) a.' 4 ABRAHAM LINoohN.s
By the President; :; @'1s' s.3 ~
''a'a4 stA s2 WILLIAM III. SEWARD,
Secretary oi State.