The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-10-03

them in any efforts they may make for actual
freedom; that the Executive will, on the first
day of january aforesaid, by proclamation des-
ignate 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 amy State or the people there
Of shall on that day be in good faith represen-
ted in the Congress of the United States by mem
bers chosen thereto at elections wherein the ma
ijority of the qualified voters of such State shall
have participated shall in the absence of couni
tervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive cyil
dence that such State, and the people thereof,
are not then IN rebellion against the United
States. That attention is hereby called to an
act of Congress- entitled an act to make an addi-
tional article of war, approved, March 10, 1862,
which act is in the words and figures following:
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of Amer
lea in Congress assembled. That hereafter the
following shall be. promulgated as an additional
article of war for the good of the army of the
U. s., and shall be observed as such article:
All officers or persons in the military or ma:
val service of the United States, are prohibited
from employing any of the forces under their
respective commands for the purpose of return-
ing fugitives from service or labor, who have
escaped from any persons to whom such service
or labor be claimed to be due; and any officer,
who shall be found guilty by court martial
of violating this article, shall be dismissed from
the service
Section Second, And be it further enacted that
this act shall take effect from and after its pas
sage. Also to the ninth and tenth sections of
an act entitled an act to suppress insurrection,
to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and
confscate property of rebels, and for other pur-
poses approved July 18th, 1862, and which
sections are in the words and figures following;
Section Ninth, And be it 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, and captured 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 con-
troll 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 forces of the United
States shall be deemed captives of war, and
shall be forever free of their seryitude and not
again held as slaves
Section Ten, And be it further enacted that
no slaves escaping into any State or Territory
or the District of Columbia, from any other
State shall be delivered up or in any way i'm
peded or Kindred of his liberty except for crime
OF some offence against the laws unless the per-
son 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 us in the
present rebellion, nor in any way given aid and
comfort thereto. No person engaged in the mil
itary or naval service in 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 person, or sur
render up any such person to the claimant, on
pain of being dismissed from the service
And do hereby enjoin upon, and order ali
persons engaged in the Military and Naval SER
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enforce, within their respective sphere of SER
vice, the act and sections above recited: and
the Executive will in due time recommend that
all citizens of the United States who shall have
remained loyal thereto throughout the rebellion.
shall, upon the restoration of the constitutional
relation between the United States and their re.
specive States, and the people if that relation
Shall have been suspended or disturbed, be com.
pensated for all losses by acts of the United
States, including the loss of slaves
In witness whereof, / have hereunto set nv
hand and caused the seal of the United States
to be affixed
Done at the City of Washington this twenty
second day of September in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty
two, and of the independence of the United
States the eighty seventh.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
by the President,
WIN. ii. SEWARD, Secretary of State