The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-10-03

-i!@ WASHINGTON, September %, 1862.
By the President of the United States of
Americas: IN --t l..[r.,,..,.,,.t... ~. 60
.a-e3'.a A PROCLAMATION. VI.
/, Abraham Lincoln, President OF, the
I United States of America, and commander
in-chief of the army and navy thereof,
hereby proclaim and declare that hereafter,
as heretofore, the war viii be prosecuted
for the object of practically restoring the
+ constitutional relations 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 practical measure, rendering
pecuniary aid to the free acceptance or re-
lection 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 adjustment
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
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 State,
the people whereof shall then be in re-
bellion against the United States, shall be
thenceforward and forever free, and the
executive government OF the United States,
including the military and naval authority
thereof will recognize and maintain the
freedom of such persons, and will do not
act or acts to repress such persons or any
of them in any efforts they may make for
actual freedom that the executive will on
the first day of January aforesaid by proc
lamation designate the States and parts of
States, if any in which the people therefore
spectively 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 United States by members
chosen thereto at elections wherein ma
jority of the qualified voters of such State
shall have participated, shall in the absence
of strong countervailing tertimony 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 adj
ditional article of war;" approved March
18th, 1862, and which act is in the words
and figures following: yl,isJsra ~ ~
BE 1t enacted By the Senate and House of Repre-
Se,stcires Of the United Sttes IN Congress assem-
Jled, That hereafter the following shall be pro-
mulgated as an additional article of war for
the government of the army of the United
States, and shall be obeyed and observed as such
-'All officers or persons in the military or naval
service of the United States are prohibited from
employing any Of the forces under their respect
i've commands for the purpose, Of returning flu
gitives from service or labor who may have es-
capped from any person to whom such service or
labor is claimed to be DUE and any officer who
shall be found guilty by a court-martial of VIC
lating this article, shall be dismissed from the
service ...- sai44f.. l.e,-iet,ft 4,r..-ary .,,n
SEC. 2. And be Il ,fm,tker 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 insurrec-
ton, to punish treason and rebellion, to
seize and confiscate the property of rebels,
and for other purposes, % approved July
18th, 1862, and which sections are in these
words and figures following - k all. 9iflf
SEC. 3. .Andbe IL further enacted, That all
slaves of persons who shall hereafter be engag-
ed 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 all slaves captured from such persons or
deserted 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 United States,
shall be deemed captures Of war, and shall be,
forever free Of the, serytude and not again held
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SEC, TO- AID bs az Ja,tser eseeted,, That no
slave escaping into any State Territory Or the
District Of Columbia, from any Of the States
shall be delivered up or in any wayimpeded Or
hindered of his liberty except forcrinae or some
offence against the laws unless itheuperson
claiming,said fugitive shall first make ohtlntha
the person to swhorn the labor or service OF
such fngitiveis:: alleged TO be due is sh!s lawfA'
owner, and has not been in arms against the
United States in the present rebellion, nor in
any way given aid Of comfort thereto; and no
person engaged in the military or naval service
of the United States shall, under any pretence
whatever, assume to decide on the validity of