The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1862-10-01
Nest Important Proclamation from
President Lincoln.
OF All slaves De-
cIared. January 4. 1868.


It WASHINGTON, September %.
By he President Of tie JRited Sates Of
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y A PROCLAMATION.
!, Abrshem Lincoln, President Of the United
States ofAmerica and Commander.in- Chief Of the
: Army and Navy thereof, do hereby proclaim and
declare that hereafter as heretofore, the war viii
be prosecuted for the object ofprao,cally restor-
' ing the constitutional relation between the Uni-
ted States and the people thereof in the States
in which that relation Ia, or may be, suspended
or disturbed; that It ia my purpose upon the next
r meeting Of Congress to again recommend the
adoption Of a practical measure, rendering pc
cunisry aid to the free acceptance or rejection 20
all the slave States, so called, the people where
| ofmay not then be in rebellion against the Uni
ted States and which States may then have vol
UNFAIRLY adopted or thereafter may voluntarily
adopt, the immediate or gradual abolishment of
Slavery within their respective limits; aud that
thereafter to colonize 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 continu-
ed; that on the first day of January, in the year
OF our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sxty-three, oil persons held as slaves within any
auy State or any designated part of a State,
the people whereof shall then be 10 rebellion
against the United States, she'll be then thence
forward and forever free The Executive Gov.
ernment of the United States, including the
military aud naval authority thereof, win recog-
nize aud maintain the freedom OF such persons,
and will do no act or acts to repress such per.
sons or any Of them ia sny efforts, they may
make for their effectual freedom; that the Exc
cutive will on the first day Of January afore-
said by proclamation, designate the States and
the parts OF State, If any, In which the people
thereof shall on that day be in good faith repre-
sened in the Congress oftho United States by
members chosen thereto at elections wherein a
majority of the qualified voters of each State
shall have participated, shall, in the absence of
strong counteractiug 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 call
cd to an act of Congress, entitled " An Act to
make an Additional Article of War;" approved
March 13, 1862, and which act is in the words
and figures following:
BE at enacted By the Senate and House of Rep.
resentatiuen of the United States irt Congress as
se0tbicd, That hereafter the following shall be
promulgated additional article of war
for the government OF the army OF the United
States and shall be obeyed and observed "a
such
Article-At officers or persons in the military
or naval service Of the United States are prohibit
ted from employing any of the forces under
their respective commands for the purpose of
returning fugi'ives from service or labor who
may have escaped from any person to whom
such service or lsboris claimed to be due, and
any officer who shall be found guilty by a court
martial violating this article shall be dismissed
from the service.
SEC. 2. And be 1t further enacted, That this
act shall take efect from and efter its passage.
Also to the 9th and 10th sections of an act
entitled IAN act to suppress insurrecton, to
punish treason and rebellion, to seize and con-
fscAte The property OF rebels and for other
purposes" approved July II, 1862, and which
sections are in the words and figures following:
SEC 9. A"d be It further enacted, That all
slaves OF persons who shall hereafter be engaged
in rebellion against the Government of the Uni
ted States, or who shall 10 any way give aid or
comfort thereto, escaping from such persons aud
taking refuge within the lines of the army and
all slaves captured from such persons or deser-
ted ny them and coming under the control of
the Government of the United States and all
slaves of such persons on or being within any
place occupied by the rebel force and after
wards occupied by the the forces of the United
States and shall he deemed captures of war and
shall be forever free of their servitude and not
again be held as slaves
SEC. 10. And be IL further enacted, That no
slave escaping into any slave 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 cause or some
otfense 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 fu-
gltive is alleged to be due 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 en-
gagged in the military naval service of the
United States shall, under any pretense what-
ever, assume to decide in the validity of the
claim OF any person to the service or labor of
any other person, or surrender mp any such per-
son to the claimant, Oh pain Of being dismissed
from The service.
And l do hereby eDjoin upon and order all
persons engaged in the military and naval SER
vice of tho UOited States to observe, obey, and
enforce within their respective spheres of ser.
vice, the act and sections above rected, and the
Executive will in due tune recommend that all
citizens of the United States who shall have re-
mained loyal thereto throughout the rebellion,
shall, upon the restoration of the Constitutional
relation between the United States and their
respective States and people, If the relation shall
have been suspended, or disturbed, be compen-
saed for all losses by acts of the United Sates,0-
Including the loss of slaves.
10 witness whereof, have hereunto set my hand
and caused the seal of the United States to be
affixed.
Done at the City of Washington this, the TWEEN.
ty second day of September, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sxty-two, and of the Independence Of the
United States the eighty-seventh
lSigEed ABRAHAM LINCOLN
BY the President:
WIN. II SEWARD,
Secretary OF State.