Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-29
Proclamation by the President.
WASHINGTON. Sent. %

AoHiN0AONg Dtpt. -.
l, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United
STATES of America, and Commander 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 constitutional relation between the
United States and the people thereof in which
States that relation is or may be suspended or
disturbed, and that it is my purpose upon the
next meeting of Congress to again recommend
the adoption of practical measures rendering pc
cuniary aid TO the free acceptance or rejection Of
al the slave States, so called the people whereof
may not then be in rebellion against the United
States, which States may then have voluntarily
adopted or thereafter may voluntarily adopt the
immediate gradual adjustment of slavery
within their respective limits and that the effort
to colonize persons of African descent with their
consent upon the continent or elsewhere. which
the previously obtained consent of the Govern
ment existing there will be continued. On the first
of January in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons as
slaves within any State or any designated part of
a State, the people whereof shall then
be in rebellion against che United States
shall be thehceforward and forever free. and the
Executive Government of the United States, in
GLIDING the military and naval authority thereof,
will recognize and maintain the freedom o. such
persons, and will do act acts to re2ress such
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 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 elections, wherein majority Of
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tcpated, SHALL in the absence OF strong counter
acting testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence
that such State and the people thereof, have not
been i'm rebellion against the United States.
That attention Is hereby called TO an act of
Congress, entitled an act to make an additional
article of war, approved March l3, 1862, and
which act is in the words and figures following:
Be ii enacted by the Senate aud House of Rep
resentatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That hereafter the follow
ing shall be promulgated as an additional article
of war for the government OF the army of the
United States, and shall be obeyed and observed
as such: Art All officers OF persons in the
military or naval service OF the United States are
prohibited from employing any of the forces I'M
der their respective commands for the purpose OF
returning fugitives from service or labor who may
have escaped from any person to whom such ser
vice or labor is claimed TO be due; and any officer
who shall be found guilty by court martial of
violating this article shall be dismissed from the
service.
Sec 2 And be it further enacted, That this
act shall take effect from and after its passage
Also, to the 9th and 10Th sections of an act
entitled, IAN act to suppress insurrection, to
punish treason and rebellion, TO seize and conhs-
cate property of rebels, and for other purposes,
approved Jaly l7th, 1862 and which sections
are in the words and figures following:
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all slaves of persons who shall hereafter be en-
gagged in rebellion against the Government of the
United States or who shall in any way give and
or comfort thereto, escaping from such persons
and taking refuge within the lines of the army,
and all slaves captured from such persons, or de.
serted by them aud coming under the control OF
the Government of the United States, and all
slaves of such persons on being within any place
occupied by rebel forces OF the United States
shall be deemed captives of war ana shall be
forever free of their servitude, and not again held
as slaves.
Section TO- And be il further enacted, That no
slave escaping into any slave territory of the
District of Columbia, from any of the States,
shall be delivered up or in any way impeded or
Kindred of his liberty, except for crime or some
offense against the laws, unless the person claim
ing said fugitive shall first make oath that the
person to whom the labor OF service OF such fugi-
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has not been in arms against the United States
in the present rebellion nor in any way giving aid
OF comfort thereto, and no person engaged IN the
military or naval service Of the United States
shall make any pretence whatever to assume to
decide on the validity of the claim of any person
to the service or labor of any other person, or
surrender up any such person TO the claimant on
pain of being dismissed from the service.
And do hereby enioin upon all persons en-
gagged in the military and naval service OF the
United States to observe, obey and enforce with
in their respective spheres of service the act and
sections above rected, and the Executive will in
due time recommend that the citizens who shall
have remained loyal throughout the rebellion
shall, upon the restoration of the constitutional
relation between the United States and their re-
spective States, shall be compensated for all
losses they have sustained by acts of the United
States including the loss of slaves.
In witness whereof have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United States TO
be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this
the twenty second day of September, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-two, and of the independence of the United
States the eighty-second
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
WIN. II. SzwARD, Secretary of State.