New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1862-10-03
Proclamation Of Emancipation.

WASHINGTON, Sept. ~.
By the President Of the U. S. Of america.
A PROCLAMATION.
!, Abraham Lincoln, President of the Uni.
ted States of America, and Commandcr-in.
Chief of the army and navy thereof, hereby
proclaim and declare that hereafter. rs here.
tofore the war will be prosecut ted for thu oh.
ject of practically restoring the constitutional
relation between the United States and the
people thereofin which States that relation is
or may be disturbed.
That it is my purpose, upon the next meet
ting of Congress, to again recommend the
adoption of a practical measure rendering pc.
cunary aid to the free acceptance or rejec-
ton of all the slave States, so called, the
people whereof may not then be in rebellion
against the United States, ard which States
may then have Voluntarily adopted, or there
after may voluntarily adopt. the immediate
or gradual adjustment of slavery within
their respective limits, and that the effort to
colonize 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 as
slaves within any State, or any designated
part Of a State, the people whereof shall then
be in rebellion against the United States,
shall be thcnceforward and forever free, and
the executive government of the United
States, including the military and naval au.
thority 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 efforts they may make for actu-
al freedom
That the Executive will, on the first day of
January aforesaid, by proclamation, desig.
nate the States aud parts of States, if any,
which tho people thereof respectively shall
then be in rebellion against the United
States and the fact that any State or the
people thereof shall on that day be in good
faith represented in the Congress of the Uni
ted States by members chosen thereto at
elections wherein majority of tho qualified
voters of such state shall have participated
shall, in the absence of strong countervail-
ing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence
that such State and the people thereof have
not been in rebellion against the United
States.
That attention is hereby called to the act
of Congress entitled Gan act to make addi-
tional articles Of war;" approved March IS,
1862, and which act is in tho words and fig
ures following:
"Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives. ofthe United States IN Con-
gress assembled. That hereafter the following
shall be promulgated as an additional arti-
Gle Of war for the government Of the army Of
the United States, and shall be adopted and
observed as such
Article-. All officers persons in the military or na
val service of the United States prohibited from en-
ploying Of the force under their respective commands
for the purpose Of returning fugves from servcs or labor
who may have escaped from any person to whom such Ia
Dor claimed to be DUE and any ocer who shall be found
guilty t court martial Of violating this article shah Ne