Nebraska advertiser., 1862-09-27
THE PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION.
FREEDOM TO SLAVES In REBEL.
LIOUS STATES.
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thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare
that hereafter, as before, the war vii
be prosecuted for the object of practical
ly restoring the constitutional relation
between the United States and the PEG,
pie thereof in which States that relation
is or may be suspended or disturbed
that it is my purpose upon the next meet
ing of Congress to again recommend the
adoption of a practical measure tending
pecuniary aid for the free acceptance OIL
rejection of all the 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 voluntarily
adopt the immediate or gradual abolish
ment of slavery within their respective
limits, and that the efforts to. c~olonize
persons of African descent, with their
consent, upon the continent or elsewhere
with the previously obtained consent of
the Governments existing there, will be
continued.
That on the lst day of January, in the
year of our Lord eighteen hundred and
sixty-three, all persons held as slaves
within any State, or any designated parts
of a State, the people whereof shall then
be in rebellion against the Unlled States,
SHALL THEN BE THENCEFoRwARD AND
FoREvER FREE, and the Executive
Government of the United States, inclu-
ding the military and naval authority
thereof, will recognize and maintain the
freedom of such persons, and OclH do no
act or acts to represS such persons, or any
of them, IN the efforts they may make for
their actual freedom.
That the Executive will on the first
day of January aforesaid, by proclama-
ton designate the States and parts of
States in which the people thereof re-
spectively shall then be in rebellion
against the United States, and the fact
that n 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
whenever majority of the qualified vo-
tiers of such State shall have participated,
shall, in the absence of strong counter
vailing testimony, be deemed conclusive
evidence that such State and the people
thereof have not been in rebellion againts
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 ID, 1862, which act is in the
words and figures following:
Be ii enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives. 0 fthe United States an
Congress assembled, That hereafter the
following shall be promulgated as an ad-
ditional article Of war for the Cover nment
of the army of the United States, and
shall be obeyed and observed as such:
Article LIST. All officers or persons in
the military or naval service of the Uni
ted State, are prohibited from employing
any of the forces under their respective
commands for the purpose of returning
fugitives from service or labor, who may
have escaped from any person to whom
such service or labor is claimed to be due,
and any officer who shall be found guilty
by a courtmartial of violating this article,
shall be dismissed from the service.
Article I'd. find be 1t further enacted,
That this act shall take effect from and
af;er its passage.
Also, to the 9th and 10Th section of
an act entitled an act to suppress insur-
rection and to punish treason and rebel
ZION; to seize and coniscate property of
rebels and other purposes, approved July
18th, 1862, and which sections are IN the
words and figures following:
Sec. 9. find be 1t further enacted, That
all slaves of persons who shall hereafter
be engaged in rebellion against the Gov
eminent of the United States, or who
shall in any way give aid and comfort
thereto, and escaping from such persons
and taking refuge within the line 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
on or being within any place occupied by
the forces of the United States, shall be
deemed captives of war, and shall be
forever free of their servltude n not
again serve as slaves.
Sec. 10. Andb be ii further enacted, That
no slave escaping into any slave territory,
OF the District of Columbia, from any of
the States, shall Ue delivered up, or in
any way impeded or Kindred of his lib
erty, except for crime or some offence
against the law, unless the person claim
ing said fugitive shall first make oath
that the person to whom the labor or SER
vitude Of such fugitive is alleged to be
due is his lawful owner, and has not been
in arms against the United States In the
present rebellion, zor in any way given
aid or comfort thereto and no person
engaged in the military or naval service
of the United States, shall, under any
pretense whatever, assume to decide on
the validity of the claim of any person
to the service or labor of any other per-
son or surrender up any such person to
the claimant, on pains of being dismissed
from the service.
And l do hereby enjoin upon and order
all persons engaged in the military and
naval service of the United States to OBJ
serve, obey and enforce within their re-
spective spheres of service, the act and
sections above recited, and the Executive
,v;Il IA dine time recommend all citizens