The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1862-09-26
Procin NATION Of Emancipation
WAsnINuroN, sept ~.
BY the Pr, s,dcnt Of Ito United
States OF Amer

BY the Pr, sidcnt Of Ito United
States ot America.
A Pro CLAMATP
!. Ahrsham Lincoln, President OF
the United States OF America, and
Cummauder.in'Chicf oi the Army
and Navy thereof, do hereby pro
claim and declare that hereafter as
heretofore tho war will represented
for the ol icct OF practically restoring
the Constitutional relations between
the United States and the people
thereof, in which states that relation
is or may be suspended or dis,uiocd;
that 1t IL my purpose on the next
meeting Of Congress to againrccom
cud tie adoption of practical
measure, rendering leeuniary aid to
the tree acceptance or rejection ot
all the Slave S'stos, so called, III
cople whereof may not then be in
r, ,belion against tho United States
and hich States may then have vol
unfairly adopted or thereafter may
voluntarily adopt the immediate or
gradual abolishment Of slavery with
in their respective limits, and that the
Efforts to cnlonzc persons of A'ricGn
decent with their consent, upon the
Continent or elsewhere, with the
previously obtained consent Of the
governments existing there, will be-
continued; that on the 1st day oI
January, in the year of our LORD
orc thousand eight hundred and Elk
ty.threo, all PERSONS held as slaves
within any state. or any designated
part Of Il State, the people whereof
shall then ho in rebellion against
the United States, shall honce'or
ward and forever be free. The Ey
ccutive Government Of the United
Stats, including the military and
naval sulhorti,s there OF, will rrcog.
nZJ and maintain the freedom oi
such persons end will do no act ol
acts to repr, So such persons or any
OF them, III any efforts they may
m,ke for their actual freedom; that
the Executive will on the first day o.
January Aforesaid, by proclamation
, desi gnate the States and par's o
'Ststes, il any, in which the peopl,
thereof respectively, shall then bc
in rebellion against The United States
and the feet that any State or the
eople thereof sholI on that day b,
IN good faith rprreet ntcd in the
Congress OF the United States, by
members chosen thereto at elections
wherein a mejority OF the qnelificd
voters Of such States shall have par.
ticips.cd, shall in the absence O
strong countervailing testimony. b,
deemed conclusive evidence thn
the people thereof have not been il
the rebellion agsinot the Unite,
Sia'os.
That attention is hereby called tt
an act of Congress entitled an ac
to make an additional act Of war
approved March 18Th, 1862, ant
which ia in the words aud figures
following:
BE IT ENACTED Bv THE II, U;E q
ltErREs ENrATlvEs tF THE uNITEI
STATES IN CoNcprss ,--.--.""nu, Ina
heretftcr the following shall be pro
mulca'cd as an additional article o
war for the government OF tie srm'
Of the United Stascs, and shall b,
obeyei erd ol served as such:
Article All officers or person.
in military or naval scrvice of tn,
United States are p'ohibitcd from
employing any OF the forces unde
their respective commands for III,
purpose Of r,tnrnirg fugi'ives iron
service or labor who may have cs
capped from eny person to whom
snch service or labor is claimed to b,
due. aud any officer who shall bt
found guilty by court martisl o
violatlng"this article, shall be dis
miss( d from the service.
Section 9. AND BE 1T rrRrliEl
ENACTED, That this act shall tax,
fleet from and alter ts passage.
Also 10 the 9Th and 10Th soo';a"
e 80 -.t vt'tnieu act TO suppress in
surrec'ion, to punish treason and re
betIion, to seize and conti4cate prop
city OF rebels. and for other prr
poses, approved July 17th, 1862
and which sections ale in tho word
and figures 'ollowing:
Section 0. AND BE IT FURTHER EN-
ACTED, That all slaves of person,
who shall hereafter be engaged il
rebellion against the government O
the United States, or who shall il
any way give aid or comfort there
10, escaping from such persons ant
taking T. fuge within the lines c { tn,
army, and all slaves captured from
such parsons or deserted by then
and coming under the control OF IN,
government OF the United States
ana all Slaves OF such persons, O,
being within, any place occupied b,
the rebel forces If the United State,
shall be deemed captures of war and
shall be forever free OF their seryi
tude ana not again held as slav,s.
S,ctitn 10. AND RE IT FURTHER
ENACTED, That no slave escaplnp
into any State, Territory or the Dis,
trict OF Columbia from any OF the
States shall be delivered up or in
any wy impeded or hindered OF his
Liberty, except for crime or some of
i,nse against tho laws, unless the
person claiming said inui,ive sbaIl