Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-10-02
Proclamation OF Emancipation.

PROCLAMATION
l. Abraham Lincoln, Presilcnt Of the
United States of America, and Com
Chief Of the army and navy
thereof, hereby proclaim and declare that
hereafter, as heretofore, the war will be
prosecuted for the object of practically
restoring the constitutional relation be.
tween the United States and the people
thereof in which States that relation is or
may be disturbed.
That 1t is my purpose, upon the next
meeting of Congress, to again recommend
the adoption of practical measure tend.
ering pecuniary 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 voluntari.
ly adopted, or thereafter may Voluntarily
adopt, the immediate or gradual abolish
ment of slavery within their respective
limits, and that the efforts to coloaizc per.
sons Of African descent, with their consent,
upon this continent, or elsewhere, with the
previously obtained consent Of the gov.
crments existing there, will be continued.
That, on the first day Of January, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-thee, all pcrs ons held
as slaves within any State, or any desig-
mated part of State, the people whereof
shall then be in rebellion agaiast the
United States, snail be thcnceforward
and forever free, and the executive gov
crnment of the United States including the
military and naval authority thereof, will
recognize and maintain tho 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 aforsaii by proclamation,
designate the States and parts of States,
II any, which che people thereof respect
lively shall then be in rebellion aginst 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
the qualified voters of such State shall
have part rt.cipated, shall in the absence of
strong countervailing testimony, be deem
ed conclusive evidence that such State
and the people 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
additional articles Of war;" approved
March l3, 1862, and which act is in the
words and figures following:
"Be il enacted by lie .Seaafc and House of Rep.
resentatires of the Uhied Sates in Cooqress assem-,
lbed, That hereafter the following shall be pro.
mugatcd as an additional article of war for the
vernmcnt of the army of the United States, and
shall be adopted and observed as such:
'''Artlcle -. All officers Or persons in the
military or naval service of the United States are
prohibited from employing any of the force un.
der the respective commands for the purpose o,
returning fugitivcs from service or labor VIII
may have escaped from any person to whom such
labor is claimed to be due, and any officer who
shall be found guilty by a court martial of viola
ting this article shall be dismissed from the ser
| vice.
"SFcT. .. And be il Gtrtfcr enacted, That this
act shall take effect from and after its passage"
Also the 9th and 10th sections of an
act, entitled, AN act to suppress insur-
rection, to punish treason and rebellion.
to seize and confscate property of rebels
ana ior other purposes, approved July
18th, 1862, and which sections arc in
the word sanl figures following:
"SEcr Q. And be il fyttcr enacted, That all
slaves Of persons who shall hereafter be engaged
'uoer.on "galsi inc government OF the United
fort hereto. escnpin" from smell nersnn. and op tn
ing refuge within the lines of the army and all
slaves captured from such persons, or deserted by
o o, r , polnS u ier lhe control OF the govern
sons being within opy u,co occnno5 u Iuvn hv rahel
forces and afterward, occupied by the forces of
the Uunited States, shall be deemed captives of
nI ""' nt "u s oe io'evfr ree OIL thelr serVitude'
.src. 10. Ind he il n,,iIcr cooc,cd That no
slave escaping into any state Territory or or the
District Of Columbia, from any of the States,
nrad 'v e h up' or III way mpeded or hin,
offence against the laws, unless the p"rson claim
in3 said fugitive shall first make oilh that the
person to whom the labor or service of such iu,
NOT hocn in 70 ne "i III ms Ms, nTi owner ana
the present rebellion, nor in any nv wav rivcn aid or o
comfort thereto, and no person engaged in the
%iHry .hm S,or or naval service of the United States
eide on the Validity of IL ee@ os assume TO de
to the service or labor of any other @ pcrsan 9'So or
surrender up any such person to the claimcnt, on
p''i Vi o.ips u's'"'SScu from the service"