Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-09-27
Proclamation by the President.

adoption Of a practical measure rendering
pecuniary aid to the free acceptance or
rejection of all slave States 50 called, the
people whereof may not then be in rebel
lion against the United States, a nd which
States may then have voluntarily adopted,
or thereafter may Voluntarily adopt, i'm.
mediate or gradual adjustment of slavery
within their respective limits and that
the effort to colonize persons of African
descent, with their consent, upon this con-
tincnt or elsewhere, with the previously
obtained consent of the Government exist
ing there, will be continued that on the
first day Of January, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty three, all persons held as slaves
within any State, or esignatod parts of a
State, the people whereof shall then be in
rebellion against the United States, shall
be then, 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, aud
will do no act or acts to rcpress such per-
sons, or any of them, in any efforts they
make for their actual freedom that the
Executive will, on the first day of Janua-
ry aforesaid, by proclamation, designate
the States and parts of States, if any, in
which the people thereof pcctivcly 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 q majority Of
the qualified voters of such State shall
have participated, shall in the absence of
such State shall have participated, shall,
in the absence of strong countcrvailing
testimony, be deemed conclusive evidences
that such State and the people thereof
are not then in 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;" ap.
proved March l3, 1862, and which act is
in the words and figures following:
BE IL enacted, 9-c., That hereafter the
following shall be promulgated as an ad
ditiopal article of war for the government
of the army of the United States, and
shall be observed as such articles
All officers or persons in the military or
naval service of the United States are pro.
hlbited from employing any Of the forces
under their respective commands for the
purpose of returning fugitivcs from service
or labor, who have escaped from any
persons to whom such service or labor is
claimed to be due; and any officer who
shall be found guilty, shall pc dissmi.ed
from the service.
SrC,2. and be aJurther enacted, That
this act shall take effect from and after its
passage.
Also to The ninth and tenth sections of
an act, entitled Gan Act to suppress in
surection, to punish treason and rebellion,
to sieEo and confscate the property of rob.
els and for other purposed,' approved
July II, 1862, and which sections are in
the words and figures following
SECTION 8. And be IL further enacted,
That all slaves of persons who shall here
after be engaged in rebellion against the
Government of the United States, or who +.
shall in any way give aid and comfort
thereto, and captured from such persons
and taking refuge within the lines of the
army, 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 per-
ons or deserted by them, and coming un-
der the control of the government of the
United Statesj and all slaves of such
persons found on, or being within anv
pace occupied by, rebel lorccs, and af-
terwards occupied by the forces of the
Uuited States, shall be deemed captives of
war, and shall be forever free of their ser
yitude, and not again held as slaves.
SEC. 10, anu be % )uyther eAucted.
That no slave escaping into any Stac or
Territory, or the District of Columbia,
from auy other State, shall be delivered up,
or in any way imp eded or lindered of his
liberty, except for crime or some offence
against the law, unless the person claim.
ing said fugitive shall first make oath that
the person to whom the labor or service
OF such fugtivcs is alleged to be due in
bis lawful owner, and has not borne arms
against the u. S. in the present rebellion,
nor in any way given aid and comfort
thereto no person engaged in the military
Or naval service OF the United States
shall, under any pretcnce whatever, as.
,ume to decide on the vali1itv OF a. i T.: