Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1862-10-01

W aSlingtoii, e1ept, --r 1907.
+ By the President of the United States
i of America
A PROCLAMATION.
|. Abraham Lincoln, President of the
{ United States of America, and command
er of the army and navy thereof, hereby
proclaim and declare that hereafter, as
heretofore the war viii be prosecuted for
/ the object of practically restoring the con
stitutional relations between the United
States and the people thereof, IN which
States that relation is or may be suspend
ded or disturbed; that is my purpose up
, on the next meeting of Congress, to again
recommend the adoption Of practical
measure, rendering pecuniary aid to the
free acceptance or rejection of al these
slave States, so-called, the people where
of may not then be in rebellion against
the United States and which States may
then have voluntarily adopted, or thereaE
ter voluntarily adopt the immediate or
gradual adjustment of slavery within
their respective limits, and that the efforts
TO colonies 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 Que thou
sand eight hundred and sixty three, all
persons held as slaves within any State or
any designated part ofa State, the people
whereof shall be in rebellion against the
| United States shall be thenceforward and
| forever free, and the executive government
of the United States, including the naval
and military thereof, viii recognise and
maintain the freedom of such persons,
and Will do no act or acts to repress such
persons or any of them in efforts they may
make for actual freedom that the execu
tive will on the first day ofJanuary afore-
said by proclamation designate the States
and parts of States, if any IF the peol l (.
thereof respectively shall then be In re
bellion against the United States, and the
fact that any State or people thereof shall
on that same day be in good faith repre-
scented in the Congress ofthe United States
by memles s chosen thereto at elections
wherein majority of the qualified voters
Of such State shall have participated in
the absence of strong countervailing testi
mony 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 IAN act to
make an additional article Of war" ap-
proved March 18th, 1862, ard which act is
in the words and figures, following:
Be IL enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives. of the United States
IN Congress assembled, That hereafter,
the following shall be promulgated as an
additional article of war for the govern
mont ofthe army of the United States and
shall be obeyed and observed as such -
'all officers or persons in the military or
naval service of the United Sttaes are
prohibited from employing any of the for
ces under their respective commands for
the purpose Of returning fugitiycs from
service or labor who may have escaped
from any person to whcn such service
is due, and any officer who shall be found
! guilty by court martial of violating this
article, shall be dismissed fromthe ser
vice"
Sec. . And be it fiuMer enacted,-
| That this act shall take effect from and af-
ter 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
sieze and confiscate the property of reb-
els and for other purposes. approved Ju
| ly 18th, 1862, and which sections are in
these words and figures following:
Sec. 9. 4nd be 1T further enncte3,-
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 there
to, 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 be
ing within any place occupied by the reb-
el forces. and afterwards by the for
ces of the United States, shall be deemed
captures of war, and shall be forever freed
Of the servitudc and not again held as
| slaves.
Sec. 10 And be it further caacted,-
/ That no slave escaping into any State, or
| Territory or the District ofColumba, from
| any of the States shall be delivered M or
in any way impeded hindered of his
liberty except for crime or some offense
i against the laws, unless the person claim
ing said fugitive shall first make oath that
! the person to whom the labor or service
of such fugitive IS alledged 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 these
United States shall, under a Y pretense
( whatever, assume to decide on the validi-
I " Oh the clam OF any person 10 the ser
vice or labor Of any other person, or sur
render up any such person to the claim
( ant, on pain Of being dismissed from the
4 service.
And do hereby enjoin upon and order
all persons engaged in the military or ma
i val service of the United States TO observe
/ obey and enforce, within their respective
i spheres of service, the act and sections
t above recited. And the executive will in
/ due time recommend that all citizens Of
| the United States, who shall have remain
ed loyal thereto throughout the rebellion
shall, upon the restoration of the constita-
/ tional relations between the United States
| and people, If these relations shall have
been suspended or disturbed, be compen-
sated for all losses BY acts Of the United
States, including the loss of slaves,
In witness whereof | have here
j r. s set my hand and caused the seal OF
I the United States to be affixed
! Done at the city of Washington, this
the twentv-second day of SepternbeE, in
the year of orr Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty two, and of the indie