Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1862-09-26
PROcLAMAT1or OF EMANCrPATroN

PROCLAMATION OF EMANCrPATIO,
wAsmyoroS, September %.
Blythe President Of ne United Stasss Of Amerioa
| "a A PROCLAMATION.
|, Abraham Lincoln, President Of tn
United States of America, and Commands
in-Chief Of the army and navy thereof, here
by proclaim and declare that hereafter q
heretofore, the war VIII be prosecuted for tn
object Of practically restoring the csnstitu
tional relation between the United States an
the people thereof in which States that rela
ton is or may DO disturbed.
That It is my purpose upon the next meet
ing OF Congress, to again recommend tn
| adoption of practical measure rendering pc
cuniary aid to the free acceptance or rejection
OF all the slave States, SO called, the peopl,
wheaeof may not then be in rebellion agains
the United States. and which States may
then have voluntarily adopted, or thereafter
may voluntarily adopt, the immediate OF
gradual adjustment Of slavery within their
respective limits, and that the efforts to col
onze persons Of African descent, with their
consent, upon this continent or elsewhere,
with the previously obtained consent Of the
Governments existing there will be continued.
That, on the first day of January, IN the
year Of our Lord, one thousand eight hun
dred and sixty three, all persons held Is slaves
within any State, or any designated part Of
State, the people whereof shall then be in
rebellion against the United States, shall be
thenceforward and forever free, and the Ex-
ecutive Govsrnnent Of the United States IN
Guiding tho military and naval authority
will recognize and maintain the freedom Of
reprcss such PERSONS, or any Of them, in any
efforts they may make for actual freedom.
That the Executive will, on the first day
Of January aforesaid by proclamation, desig-
nate the States and parts Of States, il any,
which the people thereof respectively shall
then be in rebellion against the United States !;
and the fact that any State or tho people
thereof shall on that day be in good faith
in the Congress of the United
States, by members chosen thereto at cleo
ectons whereof majority Of the qualified
voters Of such States shall have participated,
shall, in the absence Of strong cOuntervail-
ing testimony, be deemed conclusive evil
1encs that such State and the people thereof
have not been in rebellion against the United
States. s-... s...... .-... .-.......
That attention is hereby called to an act of
Congress entitled " An act to make addition.
Il articles Of war;" approved march 10, 1862
md which act is in the words and figures
following: -@.s
" Be it enacted by the Senate and House
If Representatives of the United States in
Congress assembled, That hereafter the fol-
owing shall be promulgated as an addition
Il article Of war for the government Of the
United States, and shall be adopted and Oh
served AZ such: .s.I "e
"Article ALI officers or persons in the
military or naval service Of the United States
ire prohibited from employing any of the
orce under their respective commands, for
he purpose OF restoring fugitives from ser
vice or labor who may have escaped from any
person to whom such labor is claimed to be
iue, and any officer who shall be found gull
y by court-martal Of violating this article
shall be dismissed from the service
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
his act shall take effect from and after its
passage" ~.t H@" -...
Also the 9th and 10th sections of an act,
entitled, AN act to suppress instruction,
to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and
contiscate property Of rebels, and for other
purposes, approved July II, 1862, and
which sections arc in these words and figures
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"SEc 0. And be it further enacted, That
all slaves Of persons who shall hereafter be
engaged in rebellion against the Government
Of the United States, or who shall in any way
give aid or comfort thereto, escaping from
such persons and taking refuge within the
lines ofthe army and all slaves captured from
such persons, or deserted by them and CON-
ing under the control of the Government Of
the United States, and all slaves of such per-
sons being within any place occupied by
rebel forces and afterwards occupied by the
forces of the United States, shall be deemed
captives Of war, and shall be forever free of
their scrvitude, and not again held as slaves
Sec 10. And be it further enacted, That
no slave escaping into any State, Territory,
or the District Of Columbia, from any of the
States, shall be delivered up, or in any way
impeded or hindered Of his liberty, except
for crime or some offence against the laws,
unless the person 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 been
in arms against the United States in the pres
ent rebellion, nor 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 pretence whatever,
assume to decide on the validity of the claim
Of any person to the service or labor of any
other person, or surrender up any such per
son to the claimant, on pain of being dis
uisSesb 6rom tho SERVICE" -..ss
land do hereby enjoin upon and order
all persons engaged in the military and naval
service of the United States to observe, obey,
and enforce, within their respective spheres
of service, the acts and sections above re-
cited. ... -......,.. .sg.-.ts. .......,.
And the Executive will in due time recon-
mend that all citizens Of the United States
who shall have remained loyal thereto
throughout the rebellion shall, upon the res
toration Of the constitutional relation between
the United States and their respective States
and people, if the relation shall have been
suspended or disturbed, be compensated for
all losses by acts Of the United States, iaclud
ing the loss Of slaves.
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