Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-09-26
Most Important Proclamation
from the President.
Emancipation Declared in all
states ill Rebellion, JAN
Uary 4. 1868.
LOYAL OWNERS TO sE COMPENSATED.
WASHINGTON, Sept. %.
By the President of the United States OF
America:
A PROCLAMATION.
America

By the President Of the United States Of
Anaerica:
A PROCLAMATION.
I, Abraham Lincoln, President of
the United States of America, and
Comma nder- in Chief of the Army and
Navy thereof, do hereby proclaim and
declare, that hereafter, as heretofore,
the war will be prosecuted for the OBJ
ject of practically restoring the consti-
tutional relation between the United
States and the people thereof in the
States in which that relation is, or may
be, suspended or disturbed; that it is
my purpose, upon the next meeting Of
Congress. to again recommend the adop-
tien of practical measure, rendering
pecuniary aid to the free acceptance or
rejection of all 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 thereafter may voluntarily
adopt, the immediate or gradual abol-
ishment of slavery within their respec-
tive limits; and that thereafter tor colo
nize persons of African descent, with
their consent, upon this continent or
elsewh here, with the previously obtained
consent of the Government existing
there, will be continued; that on the 1st
day of January, in the year Of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred 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 then, thenceforward and for
ever, fee. The Executive Government
of the United States, including the mil
itary and naval authority 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 first day of January aforesaid, by
proclamation, designate the States, and
the parts of State, 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 peo-
pie thereof, shall on that day be In good
faith represented n the Congress OF the,
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 counteracting 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 called 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 follow
ing:
BE- 1t enacted By the Senate and House
of Representatives. Of the United Stntes IN
C0ngress assembled, That hereafter the
following shall be promul gated as an
additional article Of war for the govern
ment OF the army of the United States,
and shall be obeyed and observed as
such:
Artcle.-All officers or persons in
the military or naval service of the
United States are prohibited from en-
ploying any OF the forces under their
respective commands for the purpose of
returning fugitIves from service or la
Dor who may have escaped from any
person to whom such service or labor
is claimed to be due; aud any officer
who shall be found guilty by court
martial violating this article, shall he
dismissed from the service.
SEC. 2 Amd he 1t further enacted,
That this act shall take effect from and
after its passage.
Also, to the 9Th aud 10th sections of
an act entitled can act to suppress in
surrection, to punish treason and rebel
lion, to seize and confiscate the prop
erty of rebels, and for other purposes, ''
approved July II, 1862, and which
sections are in the words and figures
following:
SEC. 9. And be 1t further enacted.
That all slaves Of persons who sha !
hereafter he engaged in rebellion against
the Government OF the United States. or
who shall in any way give aid or com
fort thereto, escaping from such persons
and taking refuge within the lines Of
the army, and all saves captured from
such persons, or deserted by them and
coming under the control Of the Gov
ernment Of the United States, and all
slaves of such persons on or being
within any place occupied by the rebel
forces. and afterwards occupied by the
forces of the United States, shall be