Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1862-09-26
THE. SENTINEL.
PROCLAMATION
BY the President of the u. States.

ward and forever Free.
WASHINGTON Sept. 22-The following high
ly important proclamation has Just been issu-
ed from the Executive department.:
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA.
PROCLAMATION.
l. Abraham Lincoln, President of the Uni
ted States of America, and COMMANDERS
Chief of the Army and Navy thereof do
hereby proclaim and declare that hereafter,
as heretofore, the war will be prosecuted for
the object of practically restoring the consti-
tutional relation between the United States
and each of the States ana people thereof in
which States that relation is or may be sus-
pended or disturbed. That it is my purpose,
upon the next meeting of Congress, tohgain
recommend the adoption Of practical mea-
sure rendering pecuniary aid to the free ac-
ceptance or rejection of all slave States, so
called, the people whereof, may not then be
in rebellion against the United States, and
which States may then have voluntarily
adopted, or thereafter may voluntarily adopt,
immediate or gradual Adjustment Of .sl1,@
within their respective imits; Rnd
effort to colQnze pclsos} xsfH,r.@F
-Agitb' AlasNie -ee-s--c1rf, dp1h dEss-coN;i8 n
elsewhere, with thc'previousy obtaiuea con-
sent of the governments existing there, Will
be continued. That on the FIRST day OF Jauu-
ary, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons
held as slaves within any State, or designated
part Of State, the people whereof shall then
be in rebellion against the United States,
shall be then, lhencefOrward and forever free :
and the Executive government of the United
States, including the military and naval au-
thoritv 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 their
actual freedom.
That the Executive will, on the LIST day Of
January aforesaid, by proclamation, desig-
nate the States and parts Of States, if any, in
which the 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 United
States by members chosen thereto at cleo
tons wherein a majority Of the qualified
voters of such State shall have participated
shall, in the absence of strong countervail-
ing testimony, be declared conclusive evil
dence that such State and the people thereof
are not then in rebellion against the United
States
That attention is hereby called 10 an act of
tional article of war;" approved March 10,
1862, and which act is in the words and ig-
ures following
{" Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives Of the United States of Amer
lea in Congress assembled, that hereafter the
following shall be promulgated as an addi-
tional article Of war for the government Of
the army of the United States, and shall be
obeyed and observed as such
Article. All officers or persons in the
military or naval service Of the United Stats
are prohibited from employing any of the
forces under their respective commands for
the purpose of returning fugitiyes from sey-
vice or labor who may have escaped -Gom any
persons 10 whom such service or Labor is
claimed to be and any officer who siisSll
guilty, by court martial of violSe
ting this article, shall be dismissed from ttte
service
"Section ID. And be it further enacted
that this act shall take effect from and after
its passage
Also, to the ninth and tenth sections of an
act entitled " An act TO suppress insurrec-
ton, TO punish treason and rebellion, to seize
and conhscate property of rebels, and for
other purposes approved July II, 1862, and
which sections are in the words and figures
following:
That all slaves of persons who shall hereafter
be engaged in rebellion against the govern
ment 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 control of the government
Of the United States and all slaves of such
persons found on or being within any place
occupied by rebel forces, and afterwards oc-
cupied by the forces Of the United States
shall be deemed captures of war, and shall be
forever free Of their servitude and not again
held as slaves.
" Section 10. And be it further enacted,
That no slave escaping into any State, Terri
tory or the District of Columbia from any
other State, shall be delivered up, or many way
impeded or hindered of his liberty, except for
crime or some oilense against the laws un-
less the person claiming said fugitive shall
first make oath that the person to whom TIE
labor or service of such fugitive is alleged to
be duets his lawful owner, and has not borne
arms against the United States in the present
rebellion nor in any way given aid and com
fort thereto. And no person engaged in the
military or naval service Of the United States
shall, under any pretense 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 person to
the claimant, on pain Of being dismissed from
the service
And 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 s9sTef5s
Of service, the acts and sections above To-
cited.
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
restoration Of the constitutional relations be-
tween the United States and their respective
States and people, if that relation shall have
been suspended or disturbed) be compensated
for all losses by acts of the United States, in
clueing The loss Of slaves
In witness whereof have hercuuto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United States
TO be affixed
Done at the city of Washington this 22d
day of September, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred aud sxty-two,
and of the independence Of the United States
the eighty-soveuth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
BY the President:
WM. u. SEWARD, Secretary Of State.
IN EDrnpptrv va cn,v a. RI