Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1862-10-03
Proclamation by the President.

United States Of America, and Comman
E der inChief of the Army and Navy, dc
I proclaim and declare that hereafter a:
, heretofore, the war will be prosecuted foI
, the object of practically restoring the
! constitutional relations between the Unit.
, ed States and the people thereof in which
} States that relation may be suspended OF
disturbed, that it is my purpose upon the
next meeting of Congress to again re-
commend the adoption of a practical
measure rendering pecuniary aid 10 the
free acceptance or rejection of all the
slave States, SO called, the people where,
of may not then be in rebellion against
the United States, and which States may
then have voluntarily adopted, or there
after may apopt the immediate or gradual
adjustment of slavery within their re-
speclive limits, and that the efforts to col
onize persons of African descent with
their consent upon the continent or else
where with the previously obtained con.
sent of the governments existing 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 then be in re-
bellion against the United States, shall be
! thonceforward and forever free, 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 efforts they
may make for their actual freedom.
That the executive will on the first day
of January aforesaid, by proclamation
designate the States and parts of States,
if any, in which the people thereof re-
spectively, 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 repre-
sented in the Congress of the United
States by members chosen thereto at
election, wherein a majority of the quail
flied voters of such States shall nave par T
ticipated, shall, in the absence of a strong
countervailing testimony be deemed con-
elusive evidence that such States, and the
people thereof have not been 10 rebel
lion against the United States.
Attention is hereby called to an
act of Congress entitled An Act to make
an additional article of war, approved
March 10, 1852, aud which act is in the
words and figure following
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
Of America in Congress assembled
That hereafter the following shall be
promulgated as an additional article Of
war for the government of the army Of
he United States, and shall be obeyed
ind observed as such.
All'the officers or persons in the mill
airy or naval service Of the United States ,
ire prohibited from employing any Of the d
orce under their respective commands q
or the purpose Of returning fugitives
rom service or labor who may have es- :;
aped from any person to whom such ser
ice or labor is claimed to be DUE and
ny officer who shall be found guilty by f
court martial Of violating this article tc
hall be dismissed from the service. ID
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted,
hat this act shall take effect from and
fter its passage.
Also TO the ninth and tenth sections of
n act entitled, Gan act to suppress in
direction, to punish treason and rebel
on, to seize and confscate property Of
ebels, and for other purposes" approved
uly IS, 1862, which sections are in the
ords and figure following:
Sec. g. And be it further enacted, 81
hat all slaves of persons who shall :
GREATER be engaged in rebellion against 49,
le government of the United States, or =
no shall in any way give aid or comfort fo
ereto, escaping from such persons and A
king refuge within the lines of the ar an
y, and all slaves captured from such pr
.rsons, or deserted by them and coming o (n
lder the control of the Government of ed
e United States, and all slaves Of such Co
.rsons found on or belonging within any s IN
ace occupied by rebel forces and after PR pr,
ard occupied by the forces of the Unit thi
States, shall be deemed captives of at
IT, and shall be forever free of their III
rvitude and not held as slaves. !
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, -
lat no slave escaping into any State, r.
rritory or District of Columbia, from y
y OF the States, shall be delivered 10. and