Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-09-26

"OU'HSA III VIZ 1iSHI SIlOuttVI. LIS
Lieut.. Laurens, killed
The Eleventh, Thirteenth and Fifteenth
Iowa regiments, under Col. Croker, were also
engaged. Their loss is very light The Iowa
regiments did most of the fighting
CABLE.
PROCLAMATION OF THE PRESI-
DENT ON EMANCIPATION.
.r.. WASHINGTON, Sept %.
/, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United
States Of America, Commander-in-C Chief of
the Army and Navy thereof, hereby proclaim
and declare that hereafter, as heretofore, the
war will be prosecuted for the object of prac-
ticaly restoring the Constitutional relation
between the States and the people thereof, in
which States the relation is or NAV be sus.
pended or disturbed. That it is my purpose
upon the next meeting Of Congress to again
recommend the adoption of pecuniary aid to
the free acceptance or rejection of all the slave
States, so-called, the people whereof may not
be in rebellion against the Government thereof
and which State may have voluntarily adop-
ted or may thereafter voluntarily adopt the
alternative of the gradual adjustment of sla-
very within their States
That the executive will on the first day of
January aforesaid, by proclamation designate
the States and part of States, if any, 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 men,
bers chosen thereto at elections wherein q
majority of the qualified voters of such State
shall have participated, shall, in the absence
of strong countervailing testimony, be d, en-
ed conclusive evidence that such State and
the people thereof have not been in rebellion
against the United States.
That the efforts to colonize persons of At
rican descent, upon the 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, eighteen hundred and six.
ty-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 -thencefor-
ward and forever free, and the Executive Gov.
eminent of the United States, including the
military and naval authority thereof, will rec.
ognze and maintain the freedom of such per-
sons, and will do no act or acts to repress
such persons, or any of them, in any efforts
they may make for actual freedom.
That attention is hereby called to an act OF
Congress, entitled Gan Act to make an add.
tional Act of War;" approved March 18th,
1862, which act is in the words and figures
following:
"Be it enacted by the Senate and House OF
Representatives. in Congress assembled. That
the following shall be promulgated an addi-
tional Article of War for the government OF
the army of the United States, and shall be
obeyed and observed as such:
"All officers or persons in the military OF
naval service of the United States are prohib-
tied from employing any of the forces under
their respective commands for the purpose of
returning fugitives from service or labor who
may have escaped from any person to whom
such service or labor 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. 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 Gan act to suppress instruction,
to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and
confiscate property of rebels, and for other
purposes, approved July 18th, 1862, and
which sections are in the words and figures
following:
"Sec. 9. And be it furthey enacted, That
all slaves of persons who shall hereafter be
engaged in rebellion against the Government
of tho V1nifoC Sfotac no chc1
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 I'M
der the control of the Government of the Uni
ted States, and all slaves of such persons in
or being within any place occupied by rebel
forces and afterwards occupied by the forces
of the United States, shall be deemed captives
of war and shall be forever free of their servi-
tude and not again held as slaves.
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That
no slave escaping into any State or Territory,
or the District of Columbia, from any of the
States, shall be delivered up or in any way
impeded or hindered of his liberty, except
for crime or for some offense against the
laws, unless the person claiming such fugitive
shall first make rath 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 III der any pretense assume to decide
on the validity of the claim of any person to
the service or labor of any other person, or
any such person to the claimant on
pain of being dismissed from the service; and
| do hereby enjoin and order all persons en-
ployed in the military and naval service of
the United States to observe, obey and en-
force within their respective spheres of ser
vice the act and conditions above recited, and
the Executive will in due time recommend
that all citizens of the United States who
shall have remained loyal thereto throughout
the rebellion, shall, upon the restoration of
the Constitutional relation between the Uni
ed States and their respective States and
people, If the relation shall have been sus-
pended or disturbed, be compensated for all
losses by act of the United States, including
he loss of slaves.
In witness whereof, l have hereunto set my |
land, and caused the seal of the United |
states to be affixed. ..-
Done at the City of Washington, this the
I'd day of September, in the year of our
ord one thousand eight hundred and sixty
wo, and of the Independence of the United
tates the eighty-seventh
(Signed) ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President
WV. H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.
lew Orleans Delta of the 9th inst. states up.
n the authority of refugee, escaped into
nat city from Texas, that the Rebel General
ibley was intercepted by troops from Cali
,rnia, in the vicinity of Fort Fillmore. Ac,
ordin2 to the statement Sibley had about
500 men, the California troopes intercepting
~, p,uho rod about < 000 ond Go1 Ceph1, |