Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-09-26


United States of America. and Comman-
der-in-Chief of the Army and Navy there
of, do hereby proclaim and declare that
hereafter, as heretofore, the war viii be
prosecuted for the object of practically
restoring the constitutional relations be-
tween the United States and the people
thereof, in which States that relation is
or may be suspended or disturbed that
it IS my purpose, upon the next meeting
of Congress. to again recommend the
adoption Of a practical measure, tender
ing pecuniary aid to the free acceptance
or rejection of all the slave States, SO call
ed, the people whereof may not then be
in rebellion against the United States,
which States may then have voluntarily
adopted, or thereafter may voluntarily
adopt the immediate or gradual abolish
ment of slavery within their respective
limits and that the efforts to colonize
persons of African descent, with their
consent, upon tue continent or elsewhere,
with the previously obtained consent OF
/ the governments there, will be continued;
that on the first day OF January, IN the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hun
, dred and sixty-three, all persons held as
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part of a State, the people whereof shall
then be in rebellion against the United
States, shall then be thenceforward and
| forever free, and the Executive Govern,
ment of the United States, including the
military and naval authority thereof, will
recognize and maintain the freedom Of
such persons, and will do no act or acts
! to oppress such persons, or any Of them,
IN any efforts they may make for their ac-
/ tual freedom that the Executive will, on
! the first day of January aforesaid, by pro-
I clamation designate the States, and parts
I of States, if any, in which the people
I thereof respectively shall then be in rebel
/ lion against the United States; and the
/ fact that any State, or the people thereof,
/ shall on that day be in good faith repre-
sented in the Congress Of the United
/ States by members chosen thereto at
/ elections, wherein a majority of the quail
fed voters of each State shall have parti-
cipated, shall, in the absence Of strong
/ counteryailing testimony, be deemed con-
elusive 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 en-
titled An Act to make additional Article
! Of War; approved March 13, 1862, and
which Act IS in the words and figures
following:
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives Of the United States,
in Congress assembled, that hereafter the
/ following shall be promulgated as an ad-
/ ditional article of war for theGovernment
Of the army of the United States, and
shall be obeyed and observed as such.
SECTION L. All officers or persons in
the military or naval service of the Uni
ted States are prohibited from employing
any of the forces under their respective
Commands for the purpose oi returning
( fugitivs slaves from service or labor, who
may have escaped from any person to
whom snch service or labor is claimed to
be due, and any officer who shall be found
guilty by a court martial of violating
this section shall be dismissed from the
service.
SEC. ,. And be it further enacted
That this act shall take effect from and
after its passage.
Also to the 9Th and 10th sections Of an
act entitled " An act, to suppress insur-
rection, to punish treason and rebellion,
to seize and confiscate property Of rebels,
and for other purposes" approved July
/ Il, 1862, and which sections are in the
words and figures following
SEC, 9. And be it further enacted
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 and com
fort 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
under the control of the Government ct
the United States. and all slaves of such
persons on or being within any place oc-
cupied by rebel forces, and afterward oc-
cupied by the forces Of the United States
shall be deemed captures of war, and
/ shall be forever free of their servitudc,
and not again held as slaves.
SEC. 10. Aud be it further enacted
That no slave escaping into any slave ter
I ritory, 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 some offence
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 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 giving aid and
comfort thereto and no person engaged
IN the military or naval service of the
United States shall, under any pretenee
whatever, assume to decide On the Yali-
dity of the claim of any person to the
service OF labor of any other person, or
surrender up any such person to the clai-
mant, on pain Of being dismissed from
the service. ] do hereby enjoin upon and
! order all persons engaged in the military
or naval service Of the United States, to
obey, observe and enforce, within their
respective spheres of service, the act and
sections above recited. And the Execu-
tive will, in due time, recommend that
all loyal citizens of the United States
who shall have remained loyal thereto
throughout the rebellion, upon the resto-
ration of the Constitution, relative be-
tween the United States and their respec-
tive States and people, if the relation
shall have been suspended, or disturbed,
be compensated for all losses by acts of
the United States, including the loss of
slaves.
In witness whereof, have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal Of the
United States to be affixed. Done at
the City Ct Washington, this twenty
second day of September in the year Of
our Lord sne thousand eight hundred and
sixty-two, AND OF the Independence Of
the United States the Eighty
TSigned1 ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President:
WM. II. SEWARD, Sec'y of State.