Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-23
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WASHINGTON, Sept. %.
|, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United
STATES of America and Commander in Chief of
the army and navy thereof, do hereby proclaim
and declare that hereafter as heretofore, the war
will be prosecuted for the object of practically
restoring the constitutional relation between the
United States and the people thereof in which
States that relation is may be suspended or
disturbed. and that il is my purpose upon the
next meeting of Congress to again recommend
the adoption of practical measures rendering pc
cuniary and to the free acceptance or rejection Of
all the slave States so called, the people whereof
may not then be in rebellion against the United
States, which States may then have voluntarily
adopted or thereafter may voluntarily adopt the
immediate or gradual adjustment of slavery
within their respective limits and that the effort
to coonize persons of African descent with their
consent upon the continent or elsewhere. which
the previously obtained consent of the Govern
ment existing there will be continued. On the first
of January in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty three, all persons as
slaves within any State or any designated part of
State, the people whereof shall then
be in rebellion against che United States
shall be thenceiorward and forever free. and the
Executive Government of the United States, in
Guiding the military and naval authority thereof,
will recognize and maintain the freedom OF such
persons, and will do act acts to re2ress 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 proclamation. designate
the States and parts of States if any 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, wherein a majority of
the qualified voters of such State shall have par
ticipated SHALL in the absence of strong counter
acting 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 an act to make an additional
article of war, approved March l3, 1862, and
which act is in the words and figures following:
BE il enacted by the Senate and House of kep
resentatves of the United States of America IN
Congress assembled. That hereafter the follow
ing shall be promulg gated as an additional article
of war for the government OF the army of the
United States, and shall be obeyed and observed
as such: Art All officers or persons in the
military or naval service of the United States are
prohibited from employing any of the forces IN
der their respective commands for the purpose of
returning fugitives from service or labor who may
have escaped from any person to whom such ser
vice or labor is claimed TO be DUE and any officer
who shall be found guilty 10y court martial of
violating this article shall be dismissed from the
service.
Sec . And be il further enacted, That this
act shall take effect from and after its passage.
Also, to the 9Th and 10Th sections of act
entitled, IAN act TO suppress Instruction, TO
punish treason and rebellion, to seize and cOnhs-
cate property of rebels, and for other purposes,
approved July 18th, 1862" and which sections
are in the words and figures following:
Sections and IL. Be il further enacted, That
all slaves of persons who shall hereafter be en-
gagged in rebellion against the Government of the
United States, 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 de-
serted by them and coming under the control OF
! the Government of the United States, and all
slaves of such persons on being within any Place
occupied by rebel forces o. the United States
shall be deemed captiEes of war ana shall be
forever free of their seIvitude, and not again held
as slaves.
Section TO- and be il further enacted, That no
I slave escaping into any slave territory OF the
District of Columbia, from any of the States.
shall be delivered up i'm any way impeded or
Kindred of his liberty, except tor crime or some
otfense against the laws unless the person claim
ing SAID fugitive snail nrst make oath that tne
person 10 whom the labor or service of such fugi-
tive is alleged 10 be due, i his lawful owner and
has not been in arms against the United States
in the present rebellion nor in any way giving aid
/ or comfort thereto, and no person engaged In the
military or naval service of the United States
shall make any pretence whatever TO assume 10
decide the validity of the claim of any person
TO the service or labor OF any other person, or
surrender up any such person to the claimant ON
pain of being dismissed from the service
And l do hereby enioin upon all persons en-
gagei in the military and naval service Of the
| United States 10 observe. obey and enforce with
in their respective spheres OF service the act and
sections above recited, and the Executive will in
due time recommend that the citizens who shall
have remained loyal throughout ths rebellion