The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1862-09-25
PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S
Emancipation Proclamation.
B the President Of The United Stats
Of Amrica:
A PROCLAMATION.

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of the United States of America
and Commander.in- Chief Of the
Army and Navy thereof, do hereby
proclaim and declare that hereafter,
as heretofore, the war will be pros
ecuted for the, object7ot practically
restoring the constitutional rela-
tons 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 meet
ing of Congress to again recon-
mend the adoption of a 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, aud which States may then
have voluntarily adopted, Or there
after may voluntarily adopt, the i'm
mediate or gradual adjustment Of
Slavery within their respective
limits /; and that thereafter to col
onize persons of African descent,
with their consent, upon this con-
tineht or elsewhere, with the pre-
viously 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 hundred and
sixty-three, all persons held as
slaves, within any State, Or any
designated part of a State, the peo-
pie whereof shall then be in rebel
lion against the United States,
shall be then, thenceforward and
forever, free. The Executive Gov
eminent of the United States, in
Guiding the military and naval au-
thority thereof, will recognize 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 their actual freedom that the
Executive will, on the first. day of
January aforesaid, by proclama-'
ton, designate the States and the
part Of States, 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 people thereof
shall on that day be in good faith.
represented in the Congress of the
LATED States by members chosen
thereto at elections wherein a ma
jorityof the qualified voters of each
State shall have participated, shall,
in the absence of strong counter
acting testimony, be deemed con-
elusive evidence that such State
and the people thereof have not
been in rebellion against the Uni
kted States; that attention is hereby
called to an act OF Congress entitled
An Act to make an Additional
Article of War; approved March
l13, 1862, and which act is in the
words and figures following, 81
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States in Congress assem-
bled, That hereafter the following
shall be promulgated as an add.
tional article of war for the govern-
ment of the army of the United
States, and shall be obeyedland OBJ
served as such ,5F 9tj s"''.
Article-All officers or persons
in the military or naval service Of
naval service of the United States
are prohibited from employing any
ofthe forces under respective com
mands for the purpose of returning
fugitives from service or labor who
may have escaped from any person
to whom such service or labor il
) claimed to be due and any officer
} who shall be found guilty by q
, court martial of violating this arti,
Gle, shall be dismissed from thu
service. 2hP f'.. ''ot'G g.: g
) Sec. q, And be it further en-.
acted, That this act shall tak'
!, effect from and after its passage.
Also to the 9th and 10th section
of an. act entitled San act to sup
press instruction, to punish trea
J son and rebellion, to seize and con
{ fscate the property Of Rebels, ant
, for other purposes approved July
!, II, 1862, and which sections are il
!, the words and figures following
SEC 9. And be it further en-
: acted, That all slaves Of persons
/, who shall hereafter be engaged il
rebellion against the Governmen
Of the United States, or who shall
: in any way. give aid or comfor
thereto, escaping from such per
sons ana, taking refuge within th,
+ Hines of the army, and, all slave
: captured from such persons, or de
5 serted BY them and coming pnde
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