Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-10-02
OFFICIAL.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.


mander-in-Chief of the Army AND Ma.
w thereof. do hereby proclaim and
declare that hereafter, as heretofore,
the war will be prosecuted for the ob.
jcct of practically restoring. the con-
sttutional relation between the Uni
ted States and each of the States, and
the people thereof, in which States
that relation is or may be suspended
or disturbed.
That it is my purpose, upon the
next meeting of Congress, to again
recommend the adoption of q practi-
cal measure rendering pecuniary aid
to the free acceptance or rejection OF
all Slave States, SO called, the people |!
whereof may not then be in rebellion
against the United States, and which
States may then have voluntarily
adopted, or thereafter may voiuntari-
" adopt, immediate or gradual abol-
ishment of slavery within their re-
spcctive limits and that the effort to
colonize persons of African descent,
with their consent, upon this continent,
or elsewhere, with tho previously ob-
tanned consent of the Governments
existing 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 per-
sons held as slaves within' any State,
or designated part of State, the peo-
pic whereof shall then be in rebellion
against the United States, shall be
then, thcncelorward, and forever free
and the Executive Government of the
United States, including the military
and naval authority thereof, will re-
cognizc 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 may make
for their actual freedom. .. ...
That the Executive will, on the first
day of January aforesaid, by procla-
nation, designate the States, and
parts of States, if any, in which the
people thereof respectively shall then
be in rebellion against the United
States aud the fact that any State,
or the people thereof, shall on that
day be in good faith represented in
tho Congress of the United States, by
members chosen thereto at elections
wherein a majority of the qualified
voters of such State shall have par.
ticipated, shall, in the absence of
strong countervailing testimony, he
deemed conclusive evidence that such
State, and the people thereof, arc not
then in rebellion against the United
States. ,...... ....-s-. ....
That attention is hereby called to
an act of Congress entitled, IAN act
to make an additional Article of War;
approved March l3, 1862, and which
act is in the words and figures follow
ing ..#
"Be IL enacted By tie Senate and House of Repre
sentattres q the United States Of America in Con
gress assembled, That hereafter the following
shall be promulgated as an additional article
OF war for the government of the Army of the
United States, and shall be obeyed and OBJ
served as such: .. ...- .
"AITIcLE-All officers or persons in the
military on naval service of the United States
are prohibited from employing any of the
forces under their respective commands for
the purpose of returning fugitives from SER
persons TO whom such service or labor is claim
ell to be due; and any officer who shall he
found guilty by court martial of violating
this article shall be dismissed from the service
% SEC "a 1Rd be IL further enacted, That this
act shall take effect from and after lis passage
Also to the ninth and tenth sections
of an act entitled IAN act to suppress
instruction, to punish treason and
rebellion, to seize and confscate prop
erty of rebels, and for other purposes
approved July II, 1862, and which
sections are in the words and figures
following /: .5ra ..
% SIC. o. lind be II further enacted, That all
slaves Of persons who shall hereafter be en-.
gagged in rebellion against the Government 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 captured from
such persons, or deserted by them and coming
under the coutrol of the Government of the
United States and all slaves Of such persons
found on lori being within any place occupied
by rebel forces and afterwards occupied by the
forces OF the United States, shall be deemed
captives of war, and shall be forever free of
their scrvtude, and not again held al slaves,
"SBc. 10. .fad be further enacted, That no |
slave esfaping into any State, Territory, or |
the District of Columbia, from any other |
State, shall be delivered up, or in any way |
impeded or hindered 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 such fugitive is alleged To be due |
Is his lawful owner, and has not borne arms
against the United States in the present rebel
Hon, nor IN any way given aid and comfort
thereto; and no person engaged i'm the mill
tary or naval service of the United States shall
under any prctcnce whatever assume to del
eide on the validity of the claim of any per-
son to the service or labor of any other per-
son, or surrender up any such person to the
claimant, on pain of being dismissed from the
service"
And do hereby cnjoin upon and
order all persons engaged in the mill
tary and naval service of the United
States to observe, obey, and enforce,
within their respective spheres of SER
vice. the acts and sections above re-
cited.
And the Executive will in due time
recommend that all citizens of the
United States who shall have remain.
ed loyal thereto throughout the rebel
lion shall (npon the restoration of the
constitutional relation between the
United States and their respective
States and people, if that relation
shall have been suspended or disturb
ed 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.
f'. Done at the City Of Wishing
ton, this twenty second day
a' of September in the year of
~ our lord one thonand eight
( ~ hundred and sixtys:wo. and of
the Independence of the Uni,
ted States the eighty-seventh
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President E#