The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-09-23

mander-in.Chief of the Army and Navy
thereof do hereby proclaim and declare
that hereafter, as heretofore, the warwill 7
be prosecuted for the object 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 on the next meeting of
Congress to again recommend the adop- |
ton Of practical measure rendering pc
euniary 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 may thereafter voluntarily |
adopt the immediate or gradual aboli-d
ton Of slavery within their respective |
limits, and that the efforts to colonize
persons of African descent with their
consent, upon the continent or elsewhere,
with the previously obtained consent of
the governments existing there, will be
confirmed. That on the LIST of January,
in the year of our Lord 1868, all persons
as slaves within any State, or any desig-
mated parts of States, the people whereof
Slau NC III icuchlull dEsAhSt thc y hitSu
States, shall be thenceforward and for
ever free, and the Executive Government
of the United States, including the mill
tary and naval authority thereof will re-
cognize 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 Janu-
airy aforesaid, by proclamation des-
ignate the States or parts of States, if any
there be, the people thereof respectively
shall then be in rebellion against the U.
IS and the fact that amy part of any
State or the people thereof shall on that
day be in good faith, REPRESENTED in the
Congress of the y. s., by members, citi-
I zens thereof, chosen thereto at an cleo
ton wherein majority of the qualified
I voters of such State shall have participa-
ted, shall in the absence of strong coun-
tervailing testimony, be deemed conclu-
sive evidence that such, state and the
I people thereof has not been in rebellion
/ against the United States. ,fsta
Attention is hereby called to an act of
Congress, entitled an act making an adj
ditional article of war approved 18th of
March 1862, and which act is in the
words and figures following:
Be 1T Enacted By the Senate and House
of Representatives. Of the Unitsd States
IN Congress assembled hereafter
the following shall be promulgated 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 ofthe United
States are prohibited from employing any
of the forces under their respective com
| mands, for the purpose of returning flu
gitives 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
Il found guilty by court martial, of the VIC
lation of this article, shall be dismissed
from the service. 1aT
Sec ID And be 1t further enacted
4 that this act shall take effect from and
after its passage.
4 ALSO the 9th-and 10th sections of an
hact entitled an act to suppress insurrec-
ton, to seize and confscate the proper
ty of rebels and for other purposes, APP
proved July 18th 1862, and which sec
tions, are in the words and figures fol-
lowing:
Sec. Be ii further enacted, That
slaves of persons who shall hereafter be
engaged in rebellion against the United
States, or who shall in any way give aid
or comfort thereto escaping from such
persons and taking refuge within the
lines of the army, and all slaves captur-
ed from such persons, or deserted by
! them and coming under the control of
the Government Of the United States,
and all slaves Of snch persons, on or be-
ing within any place occupied by rebel
forces Of the United States, shall be
deemed captures of war and shall be for
ever free of their servitude and not again
held as slaves. f8s-r
See TO- Ind be n further enacted
That no slave escaping into any slave
Territory, or the District of Columbia,
from any Of the States. shall be deliver
ed up, or in any way impeded or hinder
ed Of his liberty except for crime or
some offence against the laws, except the
! persons claiming said fugitive shall first
n make oath that the person to whom the
a labor or service Of fugitive is said to be
' due is his lawful owner and has not been
!, in arms against the United States in the
i present rebellion or in any way given
aid or comfort thereto, and no person
: engaged in the military or naval service
of the United States under any pretence
whatever shall assume to decide the va
1idity of the calm of any person to the
service or labor Of any other person or
surrender up any such person to the
claimant on pain of being dismissed
= from the service.
And / do hereby enjoin upon and order
all persons engaged in the military OF
naval service of the United States, to
> obey and enforce within their respective
sphere of service, the act and section;
above recited, and the executive will IL
:. due time recommend that all the citizen:
of the United States, who shall have re
J, manned loyal thereto throughout the
T. rebellion, shall, upon the restoration o.
the Union, and the constitutional rela
tons between the United States, anC
= their respective States and people, if tn.
- relation shall have been suspended o.
= disturbed, be compensated for all losse