The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1862-10-02
A PROCLAMATION,
By the President of the United
States of America.
WASHINGTON, Sept. %, 1862.


nanderin Chief of the Army and Navy
thereof, do hereby proclaim and de-
,lare, that hereafter, as heretofore, the
war will be prosecuted for the object
of practically restoring the constitution
ii relation between the United States
and the people thereof in States in which
that relation is or may be suspended
or disturbodi that it is my purpose upon
the next meeting of Congress to again
recommend the adoption ofa practical
measure rendering pecuniary aid to 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
thereafter may voluntarily adopt, an
immediate or gradual abolishment of
slavery within their respective limits;
and that the efforts to colonizo persons
of African descent, with their consent,
upon the contin ent, or elsewhere, with
the previously obtained consent of tn e
Government existing there, will be con-
tinucd. That on the first day of Janua-
ry, an tie year ofOur Lord, one thousand
eight hund, Ell and siry three, all persons
held as SLAVES soithin any State or any
designated part of a State, tie people
'ohereof shall be then in rebellion agaisat
the United States, shall be then, thence
torioard and foreUer free, and the E.cecu-
tiUe Government Of the United States, IN
cluding The military and naval authority
'hereoE aoW 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 make
for their actual freedom; that the Exec
utive will, on the first day of January
aforesaid, by proclamation, designate
the States, and parts of States, if anv
in which the people thereof respective
Iy shall then be in rebellion against the
United States; the fact that any State,
or the people thereof, shall on that day
be in good faith represented in the Con-
gress of the United States by members
chosen thereto at elections wherein a
majority of the qualified voters of such
State shall have participated, shall, in
absence of strong corroborating testi.
mony, be deemed conclusive evidence
that such State and the people there of
have not been in rebellion 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 18th, 1862, and which act is in
the words and figures following:
"Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the United
States in Congress assemble That
hereafter the following shall be promul.
gated as an additional Article of War for
the Government of the army of the
United States, aud shall be obeyei and
observed as such.
Article: All officers or persons in
the military or naval service of the
United States, are prohibited from en-
ploying any of the forces under their
respective commands for the purpose of
returning fugiteves from service or Ia
Dor, who may have escaped from any
person to whom such service or labor
is claimed to be due, and any officer
who shall be found guilty by a court
martial of violating this article, shall be
dismissed from the service.
Sec. g And be it further enacted,
that this act shall take effect from aud
after its passage. ....
Also to the 9th and 10th sections of
an act entitled ian act to suppress in-
surrection, to punish treason aud re-
bellion, to seize aud con6scate property
of rebels, and for other purposes, ap
proved July 18th, 1862" aud which
sections are in the words and figures
following: u.
Section 9. And be il further en-.
acted, That all slaves of persons who
shall hereafter be engaged in rebellion
against the Cover of the United
States, or who shall in any way give aid
or comfort thereto, escaping from such
persons, and taking refuge within the
lines of the army, and all slaves captur.
ed from such persons, or deserted by
them and coming under the control oi
the Government of the United States,
and all slaves of such persons on or be.
ing within any place occupied by rebel
forces, and afterwards occupied by the
forces of the United States, shall be
deemed captures of war, and shall be
forever free of their servitude and not
again held as slaves.
SEC. 10. And be it further enacted
That no slave escaping into any slave
territory, or the District Of Columbia,
from any of the States, shall be deliver,
ed up, or in any way impended o. hin
dcred of his liberty, except for crime
or some offence against the laws, unless
the person claiming said fugitive shall
first make oath that the person to whom
the labor or service of said fugitive is
alleged to be due, is his lawful owner
and has not been in arms against the
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