The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1862-09-26


have returned to their homes. There are
no hostile Indians within the. limits of Ne
braska.
-IDeaths and severe wounds from the
use of fire arms in the hands of soldiers
are of daily occurrence. The other day,
as New York regiment was about to de-
part, a private earelessly discharged his
pistol, killing lady, wife of an officer,
who stood near. The lady had been mar
ried but the day before.
- The Navajo Indians are making
trouble in New Mexico, plundering farms
and killing unprotected settlers.
= Gerrit Smith has shown his accus-
toned literally by paying $25 extra boun-
ty to each of the fifty-two volunteers from
where he resides, Peterboro, New York.
Proclamation by the President.
WASHINGTON, Sept. %.
By the President of the United States:
A PROCLAMATION.
I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the
United States of tAmerica, and Comman-
der-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 practical
ly restoring the Constitutional relations
between the United States and the peo-
| pie thereof, in which States that relation
| is or may be suspended or disturbed
It is my purpose upon the next meeting
| of Congress to again recommend the
adoption of a practical measure tender
| ing pecuniary aid to the Slave States, SO
| called, the people whereof may not then
be in rebellion aginst the Uunited States,
and which States may then have volunta-
rily adopted or thereafter pay adopt the
immediate or gradual abolshment of sla-
very within their respective hhits; and
that the efforts to colonize persons of Af-
rican descent with their consent upon the
continent, or elsewhere, with the previ-
ously obtained consent Of the Govern
ments existing there will be continued
That on the first day of Jatuary, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and ixty-three, all persons held
as slaves, within any State, Or any desig-
mated part of a State, the people whereof
shall then be in rebellion against the Uni
ted States, shall be .thenceforward and
forever free: and the Executive govern
. ment of the United States, including the
I Military and Naval authorities thereof,
will recognize and maintain the freedom
of such persons, and will do no act OF
acts to repress such persons or any oi
them, in any effort they may make fol
their actual freedom that the Executive
will, on the first of January aforesaid, by
proclamation, designate the States and
parts Of States, if any, in which the peo
pie thereof, respectively, shall then be ir
rebellion against the United States, ano
the fact that any State OF the people there
of, shall on that day be in good faith re-
presented in the Congress of the United
States by members chosen thereto at elec
ton wherein a majority of the qualified
voters of such State shall have participat
ed, 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 agains
the United States that attention is here
by called to an act Of Congress entitled
An Act to make an additional Article o
War, approved March 18th, 1862, ant
which act is in the words and figures fol
lowing: Be it enacted by the Senate ant
E House of Representatives Of the U. S., il
Congress assembled, that hereafter til
following shall be promulgated as an ad
! ditional article of war for the governmen
of the army Of the United States, an
shall be obeyed and observed ass uch
{ Article--All officers or privates in th
military or naval service are hereby pro
: hibited from employing any of the force
- under their respective commands for tt
purpose of returning fugitives from Sc
Il vice or labor who may have escape
e from any person to whom such service
y labor is claimed to be due, and any of
: Ger who shall be found guilty by a Cou
81 Martial of violating this article shall
e dismissed from the service.
. Section Cd. Ard be it further enacte
u that this Act shall take effect from ar
! after its passage. Also, to the 9th ar
Is 10th sections of an Act entitled an a
7 to suppress insurrection, to punish tire
z! son and rebellion, to seize and confsca
property of rebels, and for other purpo
: es, approved July 18th, 1862, and whie
F. sections are in the words and figures fe
IS lowing.
5, Section 9th. And be it further enac
II ed that all slaves of persons who sh;
hereafter be engaged in rebellion again