Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1862-09-24
Proclamation of the President.
NASHINGToN, sept. -
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
|, Abraham Lincoln, President Of the
United States of America, and Command
er rin-chief of the Army aud Navy thereof,
do hereby proclaim and declare, that here
after, AZ heretofore, the war will be prose-
cuted with the object practically, Of r.
storing the constitutional relation between
the United States and each of the States
aud the people thereof, in which States
that relation is or may be suspended or
disturbed. Tha, it is my purpose upon
the next meeting of Congress to again
recommend the adoption Of practical mea-
sures rendering pecuniary aid to the free
acceptance or rejection of all slave States,
So called, the people whereof may not then
be iu rebellion against the United States,
and which states may then have voluu'a-
rily adopt immediate or gradual abolish
ment Of slavery within their respective
limits; and that the effort 10 coloDize per-
sous Of African descent, with their con-
sent, upon this continent or elsewhere,
with the previously obtained consent of
the governments existing there, will be
continued that on the frs; day of JAN
uary, in the year Of our Lord one thou
sand eight hundred and six,y-tbree, all
persons held as slaves within any state, or
designated parts Of state, the people
whereof shall then be in rebellion against
the United States, shall be then, thence
forward and forever free, and the Exccu-
tive 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
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 peo-
pie 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 iu the Congress of the United
States BY members chosen thereto at cleo
tiOns wherein the majority of the qualified
voters of such state shall have participa-
ted, shall in the absence Of strong cOun-
tervaling testimony, be deemed conclusive
evidence that such state, aud the people
thereof, are not then in rebellion against
the United States. The attention is here
by called to al act of Congress, entitled an
act to make an additional article Of war,
approved, March Is, 1862, which act is
in the word aud figure following:
"Be 1t enacted ty the Senate and House
Of Rppreseatatiees Of the United .States Of
1mer,cu IL Congress assembled, that here
after the following shall DO promu gated
as an additional article Of war for the
army of the United States, and shall be
observed as such article:
"All officers 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 from
service or labor, who have escaped from .
any persons to whom such service or la
Dor be claimed to be due; and any officer,
who shall be found guilty BY court mar
tial, of violating this article, shall be dis
missed from the service"
Section Second, Aud be it further en-
acted that this act shall take effect from
and after its passage"
Also to the ninth and tenth sections Of
an act entitled an act to suppress iusurrec-
tion, to punish treason and rebellion, to
seize and confscate property Of rebels,
and for other purposes, approved July
17th, 1862, and which sections are in the
words and figures following:
Section Ninth, sand be it further en-
acted, that all slaves Of persons who shall
hereafter be engaged in rebellion against
the Government of the United States, or
who shall in any way give aid or comfort
thereto, and captured from such persons
and taking refuge within the lines OF the
army, aud all slaves captured from such