The Semi-weekly Shreveport news. [volume] (Shreveport [La.]) 1862-1864, 1862-10-07
Lincoln's Proclamation ofEnanci-
patton.

Lincoln's Proclamation ofEnanci-
patton.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22d.
By the President Of the United States Of
A PROCLAMATION
I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the
United States Of America, and commander
in-chief of the army aud navy thereof, here
by proclaim and declare that hereafter, as
heretofore, the war will be prosecuted for
the object Of practically restoring the con-
stitutional relation between the United
States and the people thereofin which States
that relation is or may be disturbed
That 1t is my purpose, upon the next meet
ing of Congress, to again recommend the
adoption OF a practical measure rendering
pecuniary aid to the free acceptance or re-
lection Of al! the 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 there
after may voluntarily adopt, the immediate
their respective limits, and that the efforts
to COLOMBO persons of African descent. with
their consent. upon this continent, or else.
where 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 hum
dred and sixty-three. all persons held as
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 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 ac
tual freedom.
That the Executive will, on the first day
of January aforesaid, by proclamation, des-
ignate the States and parts of States, it any
which the people thereof respectively shall
then be in rebellion against tho 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 elections wherein ajority If the quail
fed voters eff such State shall have partici-
pated. shall. in the absence of strong coun-
tervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive
evidence that such State and the people
thereof have not been III rebellion awains:
the United States.
That attention is hereby called to an act
of Congress entitled AN act to make add
tional articles of war" approved March Is,
1862, and which act is in the words and fig
ures following:
BE it enacted By the Senate and House of
Repre- ST ntdtireS Of tie United States IN Con-
gress assembled, That hereafter the following
shall be promulgated as an additional ar,i-
Gle of war for the government Of the army
OF the United States, and shall be adopted
and observed as such:
"ART.-All officers or persons in the
military or naval >ervice of the United states
are prohibited from employing any of the
force under their respective commands for
the purpose OF returning tTgitives from SER
vice or labor wh" may have escaped from
person to whom such labor is claimed to be
due. and any officer who shall be found gull
ty by q court martial of violating this article
shall be dismissed from the service
'"SEcr. lind be 1t fuT,her enuc,cd. That
this act shall take effect from and after its
passage
Also the 9th and 10th sections of an act,
entitled. AN Act TO suppress instruction,
to punish treason and rebellion. to seize and
con6srate property of rebels. and for other
purposes" approved July 18th, 1862, and
which sections are III these words and fig
urcs following:
SEC. 9. .imd be 1t. further enacted, That all
slaves of persons who shall hereafter be en-
gagged in rebellion agains. the government
of the United Safes, 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 govern
ment of the United States, and all slaves of
such persons being within any place occu-
pied by rebel forces and afterwards occupied
by forces Of the United States, shall be
deemed captives Of war, and shall be forever
free OF their servitude, and not again held
as slaves.
SEC. 10. -1nd be it further enacted, Tha.
no slaves 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 Kindred of his liberty, ex-
cept for crime or some effense against the
| laws, unless the person claiming such fugi-
! tive shall first make ontl, that the person to
| whom the labor or service of such fugitive