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The Presidents Proclamation.
Washington, Sept. %, 1857
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thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare
that hereafter, as heretofore the war Will
be prosecuted for the object of practically
restoring the Constitutional relation be-
tween the United States and the people
thereof, in which States that relation is
or may he suspended or disturbed;
That it is my purpose, upon the next
meeting of Congress, to again recommend
the adoption of a practical measure ender
ing pecuniary aid to the free acceptance
or rejection of all the Slave States, SO
called, the people whereof may not then
be in rebellion against the United States,
and which States may then have volun-
tarily adopted, or thereafter may volunta-
rily adopt the immediate or gradual abol-
ishment of slavery within their respective
limits, and that the efforts to ~colonize per-
sons of African descent, with their con-
sent, upon the continent or elsewhere,
with the previously obtained consent of
the government existing there, will be
continued
That on the first day of January, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-thrce, all persons held
as slaves within any State, or any desig-
mated part of a State, the people whereof
shall then be in rebellion agaist the Uni
ted States, shall be then and thencefor-
ward and forever FREE, and the execu-
tive Government Of the United States, in
Guiding the military and 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 efforts they snake for
their actual freedom.
That the executive will on the first day
of January aforesaid. by proclamation
designate the states and parts of states,
if any, in which the people thereof re-
spcctivcly shall 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 United States by mem
bcrs chosen thereto at elections wherein
a majority of the qualified voters of such
state shall have participated, shall in the
absence Of strong countervailing 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 an
Act of Congress entitled "An Act to
make an additional Article of War;" ap-
proved March -, 1862, and which act is
in the words and figures following.
BE IL enacted By tie Senate and house
Of Representatives. Of the United States
Of America IN Congress assembled:
That hereafter the following shall be
promulgated as an additional article of
war for the government Of the army of
the United States, and shall be obeyed
aud observed as such:
ARTICLE.
All officers or persons in the military
or naval service of the United Strtcs are
prohibited from employing any of the
force under their respective commands for
the purpose of returning fugitives from
service or labor, who may have escaped
any persons to whom such service or la
Dor is claimed to be due, and any officer
who shall be found guilty, by a court
martial, of violating this article, shall be
dismissed from the service.
SEC. 2. Ind be IL further eaacted, That
this act shall take effect from and after
its 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 coniiscatc property of rebels and
for other purposes" approved July 18th,
1862, and which sections are in the words
and figures following:
SECT. 0. Ind be IL further enacted.
That all slaves of persons who shall here
after 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