The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1862-10-11
A PROCLAMATION.
By the President of the United States.

in Chief of the Army and Navy thereof, do
b hereby proclaim and declare, that hereafter,
as before, the war will be prosecuted for
the object of practically restoring the con-
relation between the United
States and the people thereof in which
States that relation is or may be disturbed;
that it is my purpose upon the next meet
ing of Congress to again recommend the
adoption of a practical measure rendering
pecuniary aid for the free acceptance or
rejection of all the Slave States, so-ca!led,
the people whereof may not then be in re-
bellion against the United States, and
which States may then have voluntarily
adopt the immediate or gradual adjustment
of slavery within their respective limits,
and that the efforts to colonize persons of
African descent, with their consent, upon
the continent or elsewhere, with the pre-
yiously obtained consent of the govern.
ments existing there, will be continued.
That on the FIRST day of January, in the
year Of our Lord, eighteen hundred and
sixty-three, all persons he as slaves within
any State, or any designated parts of
State, the people whereof shall then be in
rebellion against the United States, SHALL
THEN BE THENCEFoRwARD 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 do no act or acts to repress such per-
sons, or any Of them, IN the 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, in
which 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 wherever majority of
qualified voters Of such State shall have
participated, shall, in the absence of strong
countervailing testimony, be deemed con-
elusive 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 an ad
ditionaI article of war, approved March IL,
1862, which act is in the words and figures
following:
"Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House
OF Representatives Of the United States, an
Congress assembled, That hereafter the
following shall be promulgated as an addi-
tional article Of war, for the government of
IF oil ehon
be obeyed and observed as such:
"Article LIST. 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 CON-
mands for the purpose of returning fugi
tives from service or labor, who may have
escaped from any person,to whom such SER
vice of 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.
art. I'd. And be 1t further enacted,
That this act shall take effect from and
after its passage"
Also to the 9th and 10th sections Of an
act entitled an act to suppress instruction
and to punish treason and rebellion to
seize and confiscate property of rebels and
other purposes, approved July II, 1852,
and which sections are in the words and
figures following:
-"Sec. 8. And be 1t further enacted, Tha.
all slaves of persons who shall hereafter be
engaged in rebellion against the Govern.
ment Of the United States, or shall in any
way give aid or comfort thereto, and escap
ing from such persons and taking refuge
within the line of the srmy, and all slaves
captured from such persons, or deserted by
them and coming under the control of the
Government of the United States, and all
slaves of such persons being within any
place occupied by the forces of the United
States, shall be deemed captives of war
and shall be forever free Of their servitude
and not again serve Us slaves.
"Sec. 10. And be 1t further enacted
That no slave escaping into any slave ter
ritory, or the District of Columbia, from
any of the States, shall be delivered up, o,
in any way impeded or hindered of his lib
erty, except for crime or some offence
against the law, unless the person claiming
said fugitive shall first make an oath tina,
the person to whom the labor or servitude
of such fugitive is alleged to be due is bis
lawful owner, and has not been in arms
against the United States in the presen,
rebellion, nor in way given aid or comfort
thereto; and no person engaged in the
military or naval service OF the United
States, shall, under any pretense whatever,
assume to- decide on the validity of the
claim OF any person, or surrender up any
such person to the claimant, on pain Of
being dismissed from the service"
And do hereby enioin unon and order