The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-09-25
Proclamation by the President
nf fMa limited states.

r of the United STATES.
t WAsH1NGToN, September 81, 1862
g By the President Of the United State
of America: HEt
A PROCLAMATION.
I, Abraham Lincoln President of tn
United States of America, and com
mander-in>chief of the army and nav.
thereof, hereby proclaim and declare
that hereafter as heretofore, the wal
will be prosecuted for the object O
practically restoring constitutional re
lations between 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, rendering pecuniary
aid to the free acceptance or rejection
of all the slave States, so.called, the
people whereof may not then be in re-
bellion 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 the efforts to col-
onize persons of African descent, with
their consent, upon the continent or
elsewhere, with the previously obtain
ed consent ofthe governments existing
there, will be continued; that on the
first day of January, in the year of eur
Lord one thousand eighnt hundred
and sixty-three, all persons held as
slaves within any State or any dsigna>
ted part of State, the people where
of shall be in rebellion against the
United Stats, shall be thenceforward
and forever free, and the executive
government of the United Safes, in
Guiding military and naval authority
thereof, will recognize and maintain
the freedom of such persons, and will
dono act or acts to repress suchpersons
or any of them in any efforts they may
make for actual freedom; that the ex-
ecutive will on the first day of January
aforesaid by proclamation designate the
States and parts 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
on that day be in good faith represen>
ted in the Congress of the United
States by members chosen thereto at
elections wherein a majority of the
qualified voters of such State shall
have participated, shall in the absence
of strong countervailing 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 San act
to make:an additional article of wal"
approved Msrch 18th 1862 and which
is in the words and figures following:
Be 1t enacted By the Senate and House
Of Representatives Of the United States
IN Congress assembled, that hereafter
the following shall be promulgated as
additional article of war for the gov
eminent of the army of the United
States and shall be obeyed and obsev-
ed as such-"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
commands for the purpose
of returning fugitives 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 found guilty by court
martial of violating this article shall
be dismissed from the service"
Sec. 2 Ind be further enacted, That
this act shall take effect from and after
its passage.
Also to the 9th and 10th sections
of an act entitled can act to suppress
instruction, to punish treason and
rebellion, to seize and confscte the
property of rebels and for other pur>
poses," approved July 18th 1862, and
which sections are in these words and
figures following: nreerE
SECTION 9. A1ad be 1t further enacted.
That all slaves of persons who shall
hereafter be engaged in rebellion
against the government of the United
States, or who shall in any way give aid
or comfort thereto, escapeing from
such persons and taking refuge within
the lines of the army; and all slaves
captured from such persons or DESERT
ed by them and coming under the con-
troll of the government of the United
States, and all slaves of such persons
being within any place occupied by
rebel forces and afterwards occupied
by the forces of the Unitdd States,
shall be deemed captures of war, and
shall be forever free of the servitude
and not again held as slaves.
SEC. lO.A4ad be 1t further enacted.
That no slave escaping into any
State, Territory or the District of COL
umbia, 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 claiming said fugi,
tive shall first make oath that the per-
son to whom the labor orservice of such
fugitive is alleged to be due his lawful
owner, and has not been in arms
against the United Statesin the present.
rebellion, nor in any way given aid or
comfort thereto; and no person enga-
in the military or naval service of the
United States shall, under any pretense
whatever, assume to decide on the
validity of the claim of any person to
the servic or labor of any other person
or surrender up any such person to the
claiment, on pain of being dimissed
| from the service.
And I do hereby enjoin upon and
order all persons engaged in the mil
itary and naval service of the United
States to observe, obey and enforce,
within their RESPECTIVE spheres of serv>
ice, the act and sections above recited.