The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-09-24
A PROCLAMATION.
BY THE
PRESIDENT OF TILE is. OF AMERICA
W ashington, Sept. -.


/, Abraham lincoln, Fresi'ent Il ttc
United States Of America, and Command,
er-in-Chlef Of the Army and Navy there.
OF, hereby proclaim and declare that here
after as heretofore, the war will be prose
eutcd for the object Of practically restor-
ing the Constitutional relation between
the Iai,d States and the people thereof,
III which states that relation is or may be
suspended pr disturbed: that ii is my
purpose, upon the neat meeting Of Con-
gress, to again recommend the adoption Of
practical measure rendering pecuniary
AID to tue free acceptance or rejection OF
all the Slave States so called, the peo pie
whereof may not then be in rebellion
against the United States, and which States
may then have voluntarily adopted or
theleafte may voluntarily adopt the im-
mediate or gradual sbollshment Of slavery
within their respective limits, and the ell
forts to eolonize persons Of African de
scent, with their consent, upon the con-
tinent or elsewhere, with the previously
obtained consent of the Governments ex-
isting there, will be continued; that on
the first day of January, in the year OF our
Lord, one thousand eight hundred aud
sixty-three, all persons held as slaves
within any State or any dcsigt ated part Of
State, the people whereof shall then be
in rebellion against the United States
shall be thenccforward and forever free, and
the Executive Government Of the United
States, including the military aud naval
authority thereof, will recognize and
maintain the freedom of such persons
and will do no act or acts to repress
such persons or any of them. In any ef-
forts they may make for actual freedom !;
that the executive will, on the first day
Of January, aforesaid by proclamation,
designa'ethe States and parts of States,
If any, which the people thereof respect
lively shall then be in rebellion against
the United States, and the fact that any
atate, or the people thereof, shall, on that
day be, in good tai,h, represented n the
Congress Of the United States; by mem
bers chosen thereto, at elections wherein
q majority of the qualified voters Of such
state shall have participated, shall, in the
absence of strong countervailing testimo-
ny, be deemed conclusive evidence that
such state, and the people thereof, have
not been in rebellion against the United
States. Attention is hereby called to
an act of Congress, entitled an Act, TO
make an additional article OF war, approy-
ed March 10Th, 1869, and which act is in
the words and figures following
" BE atenaeted by the Senate and House
of Representatives. of the United States
-Assemdtcd, That, hereafter, the following
shall be promulgated, as an additional Ar
ticle OF war, for the government Of the
army Of the United States, and shall be
obeyed ana observed as such article:
All officers or persons in the military
or naval service OF the United States are
prohibited from employing any of their
forces under their Respective commands
for the purpose Of returning fueilives
from service or labor, who may have es.
capped from any person to whom such ser
vice or labor is claimed to be due, and