Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-10-02
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n.C,,;,, If the Army aud Navy thereof, ID
hereby PROCLAIM and DECLAkE that
hereafter. as heretofore the war will oe pros
ecuted for the object Of practically restoring
,bs CONSTITUTIONAL relation between the Uni
tad States and the people thereof, in which
Statcs that relation is, OF may he, suspended
or disturbed; that il is my purpose upon the
next meeting Of Congress to again recon-
mend the adoption Of a practical measure
tenlcripg pecuniary ait to the free accep'
,.nce or rejection of all slave States so cal'' I
"a the people whereof may not then be
IN rebellion against the Uniied states anu
which States may then have voluntarily
adopted, or thereafter may voluntarily adopt
the immediate or gradral Adjustment OF
slavery within their respective limits; and
that the effort to coonize persons OF Arr
car descent with their consent upon this
continent or elsewhere with the previously
obtained consou, Of the Governments exist |
inc there, will be continued; that on the first
day of January, in tue year Of our Lord one
,bousaud eight hundred and sixty three, all
psr.ons held as slaves within any State, orI
apv designated part Of State, the people
whereof shall then be inrebellion against the
limited States, shall be thonceforward and
forever free. aud the Executive Government
Of the United States, including the mill
tary and naval authority thereof, will recoS-
pise and maiutcin the freedom Of such per-
sons, and will do no act or acts to repress
such persons, or any Of them, in my efforts
they may make for their actual freedom /;
that the Executive will, Oh the first day Of
January aforesaid, by proclamation, desig'
nate the States and parts Of States, ii any,
in which tho 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 unl-
ted States By members chosen thereto al
elections wherein a majority Of the qualified
voters of such States shall have participa
ted, shall, in the absence Of strong counter
vailing testimony, be deemed conclusive ovi
denoe that such State, and the people there
of have not been in rebellion against thu
United States.
That attention ia hereby oallod TO an act o
Congress, entitled An act to make an add
tional article Of war, approved March IL
1862, and which act is in the words an
figures following
Be IL enacted by the Senate and House
PeprescnaatiUes Of the United States {
America IN Congress Assenbinl Thi
hereafter the following shall be prpnnlgate
as an additional article OF war for the gov
ernment of the army Of the United State
, and shall be obsyed and observed as such
Article. All officers or pcrsQns ~ the mil
tary ornaval service OF the United States Al
prohibited from employing any OF the forc,
under their respective commands for Il
purpose of returning ingitives from seryit
or labor, who may have escaped from al
persons TO whom such labor is claimed to
due, and any officer who shall be found gu
ty by court. martial of violating this artc
shall be dismissed from the service.
SEC. Q. A,d be Il further enacted, Tn
this act shall take effec' from aud after
passage.
Also, to the ninth and tenth sectio
OF al act entitled IAN Act to suppress
surrection, to punish treason and rebec
TO seize and contiscate the property OF rebe
and for other purposes, approved Juy
1892, and which sections are 10 the wor
and figures following
SEC. Q. And be il further enacted, Tt
oil slaves OF persons who shall hereafter
engaged in rebellion against the Cover
ment Of the United States, or who shall
any way glvo aid or comfort there
f.. IL and fulyt
fuge within the lines OF tho army and
slaves captured from such persons or
sorted by them and coming under tho q,
troll OF the Government of the United Stat
and all slaves Of such pereons found on
being within any place occupied by rel
forces and afterward occupied by the fore
Of tho Unitod States, shall b. deemed ca
lures Of war, and shall be forever FREQ
their servitude aud not again'held as slav
SLc. 10. And be Il further enacted, III
no slave escaping into any State, Terri
~, or the District OF Columbia, from any
the States, shall be delivered up, or in a
way irnpeded or hindered Of hisliberty,
cept for crime or som" offence against .
laws, unless the person claiming said
gitive shall 6rst make oath that tho per-
10 whom the labor or service Of such fu
tive is alleged to be due, ,is his lawful owr
and has NOT peen IN arms against the UNI
States in tue present rebellion, nor any '
given a;d and conis9r thereto; aud no per
epgsgsd In the military Or naval servic'
tho United States shall, under any prete
whstovsr, assume 10 decide on the valiC
Of the claim Of any person 10 the service
labor of any other person, or surrender
auy such person 10 the claimant, on pail
being dismissed from the service.
Aud I do hereby enjoin upon and OIL
oil persons engaged in the military and
val service Of the United States to obsO
obey and enforce within their respec
spheres Of service, the act and sections al
rsdted. n,n sa
And the Executive will in duo
recommend that all citizens Of tho Un
States who shall have remained loyal II
ssthroughout the rebellion, shall tupon
restoration ofthe constitutional relation