Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1862-09-27
PROCLAMATION OFTMEP
IDENE.
WAsnNGToN, Sept. 90.
By THE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA.

AShlNClON, ScpL' ~.
By THE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
| l, Abraham Lincoln, President of the Uni
ted States of America, and CommandGr-in-
chief of the Army and Navy thereof, do
hereby proclaim and declare that hereafter,
as heretofore, the war will be prosecuted
with the object practically, of restoring the
constitutional relation between the United
States and each of the States and the peo-
pie thereof, in which State 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 practical measures 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 Uni
ted States and which States may then have
voluntarily adopted, or thereafter may vol
unfairly adopt immediate or gradual abolish
mcnt ofsavcry within their respective limits; /;
and that the effort to colonize persons of
African descent, with their consent, upon
this continent and elsewhere, with the pre-
viously obtained consent of the governments
existing there, will be continued; that on
the first day of January, in the of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixty three
all persons held as slaves within any state,
or designated parts of a state, the people
whereof shall then be in rebellion against
the United States, shall be then, thencetor-
ward 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 and will do no act or acts to
| rcpress such persons or any of them in any
cgorts they may make for actual freedom :;
that the Executive will, on the first day of
January aforesaid, by proclamation designate
the states, and parts of states, ifany 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 he in good faith
( rcpreseted in the Congress of the United
States by members chosen thereto at ecc-
| tions wherein the majority of the qualified
voters Of such state shall have participated,
shall in the absence of strong countcryaing
! testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence
! that such state, and people thereof, are not
/ then III rebellion against the United States
I That attention is hereby called to an act of
/ Congress, act to make an additional article
OF war, approved, March 10, 1862, which
! act i, in the words and tigure.lolowing
/ BE il cnactGd 6Y The .Sr,ate ond H,use Of
I RlprssCnotire gtNe Thied StateS ~ imert-
run CpagycsS assembled, that hereafter the fol-
/ lowing shall he promulgated as I'm addi-
/ tional article Of war for the good Of thearmy
/ of the [. s., and shall De observed as such
/ article
All officers or persons in the military or
/ naval service Of the United States are pro-
hibited from employing any Of the forces
| under their respective commands for the
purpose of returning fugitives from service
/ or labor who have escaped from any person
. to whom such service or labor be claimed to
! be due; and any officer. who shall be found
| guilty by a court martial Of violating this
/ article, shall be dismissed from the service.
Scction Sccoad, And be it further enacted
| that this act shall take effect from and after
| its passage Also to the ninth and tenth
| sections of an act entitled an act to suppress
| insuTection, to punish treason rebellion, to
seize and cOntfscate property of rebels, and
for other purposes approved July 18th, 1869,
and which sections are in the words and
/ figures following:
/ Section Niuth And Nc it further enacted,
/ that all slaves Of persons who shall hereafter
| he engaged in rebellion against the Govern
mcnt OF the United States, or who shall in
any way give aid or comfort thereto, and
captured from such persons and taking re
fuge within the lines of the army, and all
slaves captured taom such persons, or desert
ed by them and coming under 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 occupied by the forces OF
the United States, shall be deemed captiyes
of war, and shall be forever free of thcil
Ia o,,I Nc in, hold
.ScctioH Ten, And be it further enacted
that no slaves escaping into any state OF
territory or the District of Columbia, from
f any other State shall be delivered up or il
any way impedcd or hiudercd from his liber
ty except for crime or some offence agains
the laws unless the person claiming sale
fugitive shall first make oath that the pcrsol
? to whom the labor or service of such luei
= tive is alleged to be due his lawful oWne
| and has not borne arms against us in tn
= present rebellion, nor in any way given al,
+ and comtnr thereto. No person engaged i
! the military or naval service of the Unite
. States, shall under any prctensc WhateyC
: assume to decide ON the validity of the Cl0il
: Of any person TO the service or labor Of an
p other person, or surrender up any such pei
s son to the claimant, on pain Of being di
= missed from the service.
j. And do hereby cnjoin upon, and ordC
all persons engaged in the Military and Nj
1 val service of the United States to observ
c obey and enforce, within their respcctiN
IT sphere Of service, the act and sections aboi
II recitcd; and the Executive will in due tin
d recommend that all citizens Of the Unite
Y States who shall have remained loyal ther
y to throughout the rebellion, shall, upon Il
y restoration of the constitutional relation b
r, tween the United States and their respcctiN
d states and the people of that relation sha
have been suspended or desttutcd, be con
pensated for all losses by acts Of the Unite
States, including the loss Of slaves,
In witness whereof, / have hcreunto 6