Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-09-26

age. We had intended longer orticlc on
this subject, but have not space for it.
Proclamation by the President
!, Abraham Lincoln, President of the
United States Of America, and commander
in-chief of the Army and Navy, do hereby
proclaim and declare that hereafter as here
tofore, the war will be prosecuted for the
object of practically restoring the consiiiu-
tional relations between the United States
and the people thereof, in which States tina,
relation may be suspended or disturbed,
that it is my purpose upon The next meet
ing Of Congress to again recommend the
adoption of practical measure rendering
pecuniary aid to the free acceptance or re-
lection Of all the slave States, so called, the
people whereof may not then be in rebel
hon against the United States and which
States may then have voluntarily adopted,
or thereafter may adopt the immediate or
gradual abclishment of slavery within their
respective limits, and that the efforts to col
onize persons of African descent with their
consent upon the continent or elsewhere
with the previously obtained consent of the
governments existing there will be contin-
ued. THAT ON THE FIRST DAY
OF JANUARY, IN THE YEAR OF
OURLORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT.
HUNDRED AND SIXTY-THREE,
ALL PERSONS HELD AS SLAVES
WITHIN ANY STATE OR ANY DIES.
IGNATED PART OF A STATE. THE
PEOPLE WHEREOF SHALL THEN
BE IN REBELLION AGAINST
THE UNITED STATES, SHALL BE
THENCEFORWARD AND FOREy.
Err FREE, and the executive Govern
ment of the United States, including the
military and naval authority there Of, 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 may make for their actual freedom.
That the executive will on the first day
of January aforesaid, by proclamation des.
ignate the States and parts of States, If any.
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 in good
faith represented in the Congress of the
United States by members chosen thereto
at election, wherein majority Of the qlal.
flied voters of such States shall have par.
ticipated, shall, in the absence of strong
countervailing testimony be deemed conclu-
sive evidence that such States. and the PEG.
pie thereof have not been in rebellion
against the United States.
That attention is hereby called TO an act
Of Congress entitled An Act to make ar
additional article of war, approved Marcel
Is, 1852, ard which act is in the words ant
figure following:
Be it enacted by the Senate and Hous,
of Representatives of the United States o.
America in Congress assembled, Tha
hereafter the following shall be promulgated
as ar additional article of war for the gov
ernsnent of The army Of the United States
aud shall be obeyed and observed as such
AL the officers or persons in the militar,
or naval service of the United States ar
prohibited from employing any of the fore
under their respective commands for til
purpose IF returning fugitiyes from servic
or labor uho may have escaped from an
person to whom such service or labor
claimed to be due, and any officer who sha
be found guilty by court martial of viz
lating this article shall be dismissed fror
the service.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, Tha
this &C, shall take effec, from and after it
passage.
Also to the ninth and tenth sections of q
net entitled In act 10 suppress insurret
tion, to punish treascn and rebellion,
seize and confscate property of rebels, ar
for other purposes" approved July l
1862, and which sections are in the wor
and fgure following
Sec 3. And be il further enacted. TIL
all slaves Of persons who shall hereafter
engaged in rebellion against the Cover
meni of the United States. or who shall
any way give aid or comfort thereto, esca
ing from such persons and taking refu
within the lines Of The army, and all .las
captured from such persons. or deserted
them a;d coming under the control Of {