Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-10-01
WEDNESDAY,, OCTOBER l, 1862.

| freedom. So "0'ua
| That the Executive will, On the first dav oi
January atoresali, by proclamation, designate
the States or parts of States, if anv. in Which
the people thereof respectively shall then he
IN rebellion against the United States. and
/ the tact that any State, or the people thereof
shall, on that day, be in good fai III renresent !.
ed in the Congress of the United States bv
members chosen thereto at elections. wherein
a majority of the qualified voters of suoh
State shall have participated, shall. in the
absence OF strong. countervailing testimony
| Do deemed conclusive evidence that such State
and the people thereof are not then in rebel.
| lion against the United States.
That attention is hereby called to an act of
Congress entitled "An Act to make an addi.
tionai Article of War;" approved March 18th.
looz, ana which act Is In the words and fs-
ures following:
BE 1t enacted by the Senate and House of
heprese"tat,res OF the United States of Amer
lcG in Congress assembled, That hereafter the
following shall be promulgated as an addition.
al article OF war for the government of the
army of the United States, and shall be oh.
served 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 OF their respective commands for the
purpose OF returning fugitives from service
or labor who may have escaped from any
persons to whom such service or labor il
claimed to be due; and any officer who shall
be found guilty by court martial of viola.
tiop of this article shall be dish issed from the
service.
''SEC. 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 insurreotion.
to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and
conhscate the property of rebels. and for 9TH
er purposes, approved July 18th, 1862, and
which sections are in the words and figures
following:
"SEc. 9. Ana be 1t further enacted. 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 escaping
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
persons found on or being within any place
occupied by rebel forces, and afterwards oc.
cupled by the forces of the United States,
shall be deemed captives of war; and shall be
forever free of their serVitude, and not again
held as slaves
''SEC. 10. And be 1t further enacted, That
no slave escaping into any State, Territory,
or the District cf Columbia, from any other
State, shall be delivered up or in any way
impeded or hindered of his liberty, except
tor crime or some offence against the laws
unless the person claiming the said fugitive
shall first make oath that the person to whom
the labor or service of such fugitive is alleged
to be due is his lawful owner, and has not
borne arms against the United States in the
present rebellion, nor in any way given aid
comfort thereto"
No person engaged in the military or ma
val service Of the United States shall, under
any pretence whatsoever assume to decide on
the validity of the claim of any person to the
service or labor of any other person. or sur.
render up. any such person to the claimant,
on pain of being dismissed from the service.
And do hereby enioin upon and order all
persons engaged in the military and naval
service OF the United States TO observe, obey,
and enforce, within their respective spheres
OF service, the acts and sections above recited
And the Executive will, in due time, recon-
mend that all the citizens of the United
O'"'sNo' "hO ohoiA ldNS IU1dl lDGEGlU
throughout the rebellion, shall, upon the res
toration of the constitutional relations be-
tween the United States and the people, if
that relation shall have been suspended or
disturbed, be compensated for all losses by
acts of the United States, including the loss
of slaves.
In witness whereof, have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United States
to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this the
22d day of September, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty
two, and of the Independence of the United
States the eighty seventh.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 8
By the President,
WIN. Ii. SEWARD, Secretary of State.
No More Tampering with Enlistments.
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