The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1862-10-04
PROCLAMATION OF FREEDOM.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES.
SAUNDERS xvi. 4S.
WASHINGTON, Sept. &c, 1869.

STATES.
WASHINGTON, Sept. &c, 1862.
/, Abraham Lincoln, President of the
q nited States of America, and Commander
r. Chief of the Army and Navy thereof, do
hereby proclaim and declare, that hereafter,
as before, the war will be prosecuted for the
object of practically restoring the constitu-
tional relation between the United States
and the people thereof in which States that
relation is or may be suspended or dis
turbed; that it is my purpose, upon the next
meeting of Congress, to again recommend
the adoption of practical measure tender
ing pecuniary aid for the free acceptance or
rejection of all the slave States, so called,
the people whereof may not then be in re-
ibellion against the United States, and which
States may then have voluntarily adopted
OF thereafter may adopt the immediate or
gradual adjustment of Slavery within their
respective limits; and that the efforts to
eolonize persons of African descent, with
their consent, upon the continent or else
where, with the previously obtained consent
of the Governments existing there, will be
Eeentinued.
That on the first day of January, in the
fyear Of our Lord eighteen hundred and
sixty three, all persons held as slaves within
any State or any designated part of State,
the people whereof shall then be in rebel
lion against the United States, shall be then,
henceforward and forever, free; and the Ex
ecu.ive Government of the United States,
| including the military and naval authority
thereof, will recognize and maintain the free
dom 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 their
actual freedom.
That the Executive will, on the 1st day
of January aforesaid, by proclamation. des-
ignate the States and parts of States in
which the people thereof respectively 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 wherever a majority of the quail
flied voters of such State shall have partici-
pated, shall, in the absence of strong coun-
tervailing testimony, be deemed 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 can Act to make an
additional Article of War" approved
March Is, 1869, which act is in the words
and figures following:
Be Il enacted by the Senate and House Of
! Representatives. Of the United States, IN Con-
gress assembled, That hereafter the follow
ing shall be promulgated as an additional
article of war, for the government of the
army of the United States, and shall be
obeyed and observed as such:
Article 1st. 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 COM
mands for the purpose of returning fugitives
from service or labor, who may have es-
capped from any person to whom such SER
vice or labor is claimed to be due; and any
i officer who shall be found guilty by court
martial of violating this article, shall he dis
missed from the service.
Article Cd And be IL further enacted,
That this act shall take effect from and after
its passage.
Also, to the 9th and 10th sections of an
act, entitled San Act to suppress Insur-
rection, and to punish Treason and Rebel
lion; to seize and confscate property of
Rebels, and OTHER purposes" approved Ju-
! ly II, 1868, and which sections are in the
words and figures following:
Sec. 8. Ind that 1t be further enacted,
/ That all slaves OF persons who shall be here
after engaged in rebellion against the Gov
eminent of the United States, or who shall
in any way give aid or comfort thereto, and
escaping from such persons and taking ref
uge within the line of the Army, and all
slaves captured from such persons, or de-
serted by them and coming under the con-
troll of the Government of the United States,
aud all slaves of such persons on or being
within any place occupied by the forces OF
/ the United States, shah be deemed captives
of war, and shall be forever free of their
servitude aud not again serve as slaves.