Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-09-23
The Presidents Policy
Declared.
SLAVERY TO Be EXTERMINATE
BIZ the President of the United States of
america.
A PROCLAMATION.

l, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, president of the Uni
chief of the army and navy thereof, do hereby
proclaim and declare that hereafter as hereto
fore the war will be prosecuted for the object
of practically restoringthe constitutional rela-
ton between the United States and the peo-
pie thereof, in states where that relation is or
may be suspended or disturbed;
That it is my purpose upon the next meet
ing of congress to again recommend the adop-
ton of practical measure rendering pecu-
MARY aid to the free acceptance or rejection
of all the slave states called, the people
whereof NAV not then be in rebellion against
the United States, and which states may then
have voluntarily adopted or thereafter may
voluntarily adopt the immediate or gradual
adjustment of slavery within their respective
limits; and that the effort to colonze persons
of African descent with their consent upon
this continent or elsewhere, with the previous
ly obtained consent of the governments exist
ing 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 people whereof shall be in rebellion against
the United States, shall be then, and thence
forward, forever free; and the executive gov
eminent 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 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 proclamation designate
the states and parts of states, if any, in which
the people thereof respectively shall then be
in rebellion againstthe 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 United States, by MEM
bers chosen thereto at elections where a ma
iority 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 can act to make an addi-
tional article of war, approved March 18th,
1862" and which act is in the words and fig
ure following-
''Beit enacted by the senate and house of
representatives of the United States of Amer
lea in congress assembled, that hereafter the
following shall be promulgatedas an addition
al article OF war for the government Of the
army of the United States, and shall be obey
ed and observed as such:-
Article-''All officers or persons in the
military or naval service of the United States
are prohibited from employing any of the
forces under their respective commands for
the purpose of returning fugitives from SER
vice or labor who may have escaped from any
persons 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 SER
vice.
''Sect. 2. 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 san act to suppress Instruction, TO
punish treason and rebellion, to seize and
confscate property of rebels, and for other
purposes, approved July 18th, 1862, and
which sections are in the words and figure fol-
Iowing:-
''Sect 8. And 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 escaping from
such persons and taking refuge within the
lines of the army, and ali slaves captured
from such persons or deserted by them and
coming under control of the government of
the United States, and all slaves of such per-
sons found on or being within any place oc-
cuped by the rebel forces and afterwards oc-
cupied by the forces of the United States,
shall be deemed captures of war, and shall
be forever free of their servitude and not
again held as slaves.
''Sect. 10. And be it further enacted, that
no slave escaping into any state, territory, or
the District of Columbia, from any of the
states, shall be delivered upor in any way i'm
peded or hindered of his liberty, except for
crime or some offence against the laws, I'M
less the person claiming 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 pres
ent rebellion, nor in any way given aid and
comfort thereto, and no person engaged in the
militay or naval service of the United States
shall, under any pretence whatever, assume
to decide the validity of the claim 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 enjon upon and order all
persons engaged in the military and naval SER
vice Of the United States to observe, obey,
and enforce within their respective spheres of
service the acts of congress above recited
and the executive will in due time recommend
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