The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-10-03


PROCLAMATION.
|. Abraham Lincoln, President of the
United States of America, and commander
in-chief of the army and navy thereof,
hereby proclaim and declare that hereafter,
as heretofore, the war will be prosecuted
for the object 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 disturbed; that it is
my purpose, upon the next meeting
Of Congress, to again recommend the
adoption of practical measure, rendering
pecuniary aid to the free acceptance or re-
lection of all the slave States, so-called, the
people whereof may not then be in re-
bellion against the United States. and
which States may then have voluntarily
adopted, or thereafter may voluntarily
adopt the immediate or gradual adjustment
Of slavery within their respective limits.
and that the efforts to colonize persons Of
African descent, with their consent,
upon the 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 hundred 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 re-
bellion against the United States, shall be
thenceforward and forever free, and the
executive government of the United States,
including the military and naval authority
thereof, will recognize and maintain the
freedom of such persons, and will do not
act or acts to repress 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 proc
lamation designate the States and parts Of
States, fanny in which the people therefore
spectively shall then be in rebellion against
the United States, and the fact that any
State or the people thereof shall Oh that
day be in good faith represented in the
Congress of the United States by members
chosen thereto at elections wherein a ma
.iority of the qualified voters of such State
shall have participated, shall in the absence
of strong countervailing tertimony 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 an act of
Congress entitled ''an act to make an adj
ditional article of war;" approved March
18th, 1862, and which act is in the words
and figures following:
BE 1t enncfed by the Senate and H,ase of Repre-
SeHttticeS IF the United States IA Congress assem-
Jlea, That hereafter the following shall be pro-
mulgatcd as an additional article of war for
the government of the army of the United
States, and shall be obeycd and observed as such
All Officers or persons in the military or naval
service of the United States are prohibited from
employing any OF the forces under their respect
i've commands for the purpose Of returning flu
gitiyes from service Or labor who may have es-
capped from any person to whom such service or
labor is claimed TO be due, and any officer who
shall be found guilty by Il court-martia of vio-
lating this article shall be dismissed from the
service"
SEC. 2. And be Ii tmtaer eaacfed. That this
act shall take effect from and after It's passage
Also to the 9th and 10Th sections of an
act entitled "An act to suppress insurrec-
ton, to punish treason and rebellion. to
seize and confiscate the property of rebels,
and for other purposes" approved July
18th, 1862, and which sections are in these
words and figures following:
SEC. 8. AnS be II fm'iher enacteA. That all
slaves of persons who shall hereafter he enpap
ed 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 of the army
and all slaves captured from such persons or
deserted by them and coming under the con-
lTOl VI Tie government OF the U0lteQ States.
and all slaves of such persons being within any
place occupied by rebel forces and afterwards
occupied by the forces of the United States,
shall be deemed captures of war, and shall be
forever free OF the scryitudc and not again held
as slaves. ~ - ..t..
SEC. 10. And be II further eaucted, That no
slave escaping into any State, Territory or the
District of Columbia, from any of the States
shall be delivered up OF in any way impeded or
hindered of his liberty except for crime OF 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 present 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