East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1862-09-30
Emancipation Proclamation by
the President.
WASHINGTON, Sent. %.

WASHINGTON, Sept. %
By the President of the United States of America
PROCLAMATION.
/, Abraham Lincoln, President of the
United States of America, and Com.
mander in Chief of the Army and Navy
thereof, do hereby proclaim aud declare
that, hereafter, as heretofore, the war
will be prosecuted for the object of
practically restoring the constitutional
relation 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 pecnniary aid to the
free acceptance or rejection of all tn"
Slave States, so called, the people
whereof may not be then in rebellion
against the United States and which
States may then have voluntarily adopt
ed, or thereafter may voluntarily adopt,
the immediate or gradual abolishment
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 con.
tinucd:
That, on the first day of January, in
the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and siyty.three, all per.
sons held as slaves within any State, or
any designated part of State, the roo.
pie whereof shall then be in rebellion
against the United States, shall bc then
thencctor ward, aud 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 no act or acts t. 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 proclama.
ton, designate the States or parts of
States, if any, in which tho people
thereof 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 majority of the qualified
voters of such State shall have partici
pated, shall in the absence of strong
countervailing testimony, be deemed
conclusive evidence that such State. aud
the people thereof, have not been in re.
b,lion against the United States;
That attention is hereby called to an
act of Congress entitled can act to
make an additional article of war;" an
proved March l3, 1862, and which act
is in the words and figures following:
"Be 10 enacted By tie Senate and
House Of Representatives Of The United
States az Congress assembled, That
hereafter, the following shall be promul.
gated as an additional article of war for
the government of the army of the
United States, and shall be obeycl and
observed as such:
article |. All officers or persons in
the military or naval service of tho Unit
cd States are prohibited from employ.
ing any of the forces under thoir respcc
tive commands for the purpose of re
turning fugitives from service or labor
who may have escaped from any person
to whom such service or labor is claim
ed to be due, and any officer who shall
be found guilty by court martial Of
violating this article shall DO dismissed
from the service.
"SEc. 2--A,el be "a farihcr enacted,
That this ACT shall take effect from au,l
after its passage M H
Also 10 the 9th and 10th sections of
an act entitled "An act to suppress in
surrectioD, 10 punish treason and rebel