The New York herald., 1862-09-23
All Slaves in Stairs in Rebel
Lion January. !, 1863,
to Be Free.
The President Re- Aews the Offer to Pay
for SlaV es Of LoyaliSts,
ny the PrcsiS TENT OF tho United states or
n PROCLAMATION.


WASHINGTON, Sept %, 1852
!, Abraf iam Lincoln, President of the United
States OF America, and Commander-in-C Chief of
Inc arm and navy thereof, do hereby proclaim
and a. sclare that hereafter, as heretofore, the
war Ill be prosecuted for the object of practi-
caliy restoring the constitutional relation be-
Ewf cn the United States and the people thereof
'n which States that relation is, or NAV be. sus-
ended or disturbed; that it is my purpose,
npon the next meeting of Congress, to again
recommend the adoption of practical mea-
sure rendering pecuniary aid to the free ac-
ceptance or rejection of all the slave
States, so-called, the people whereof NAV
not then be in rebellion against the United
States, and which States may then have volun-
tarily 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 con-
sent OF the governments existing there, will be
continued; that on the first day Of January in
ne gear Of our Lord one thousand ciaht hundred
and siatyttree, all persons held as slayes aoithin
any Safe, or any designated part of a State. The
people Ohereof shall then be in rebellion AGAINST the
United States, shall be then hencgortoard and
foreUer 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
viii 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 Janu-
ary aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the
States and parts of States, if any, in which the
people thereof respectively shall then be in re-
bellion against the United States; and the fact
shat any State, the people thereof shall on that
day be in good faith represented in the Con-
gress of the United States by members chosen
thereto at elections wherein majority of the
qualified voters of such State shall have par
tcipated, shall, in the. absence of strong conn.
tsrvailing testimony, be deemed conclusive
evidence that such State and the people thereof
have not been in rebellion against the United
States
That attention 10 hereby. called to an act of
Congress, entitled IAN act to make an additional
Article Of War;" approved March l3. 1862. and
which act is in the words and figure following
ne enacted oy the Senate and House of Repye-
senfdfsres of the United States of america in Con-
9Tess assembled, That hereafter the following
shall be promulgated as an additional article Of
war Tor the government of the Army of the United
States, and shall be obeyed and observed "a
such,-
ARrIcLE.-An officers or persons in the military
Or naval service Of the United States are prohibited
nom employing any Of the forces under their
respective commands for the purpose of returning
fugtives from service or labor who NAV have es.
saped from any persons to whom such service or
ANAL be found guilty by court martial of yio-
iating this article shall be dismissed from the
service.
SECTION 2.--And be IL further enacted That This
sc' shah 'ake erect from and after its passage.
Also to the ninth and tenth sections Of an
act entitled can Act to suppress insurrection.
TO punish treason and rebellion. to seize and
sonfiscate property of rebels, and for other pur-
poses" approved July IL, 1862, and which sec
lions are n the words and figure following
SECTION s.--And be IL further enacted That al,
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 com.
fort thereto, escaping from such persons and
sakng refuge within the lines of the army, and all
slaves captured from such persons, or deserted BY
fhem and coming under the control OF the govern.
ment OF the United States, and all slaves Of such
persons found on Cor being wthin) any place oc
cupied by rebel forces and afterwards occupied by
sne iorces OF the United States, shall be deemed
captures Of war; and shall be forever free OF their
serritude, and not again held as slaves.
SECTION I0.-And be IL .ftatte, enacted. 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 way mpcded or hin.
dered OF his liberty, except for crime or some Of
fence against the laws, unless the person claiming
said fugitive shall first make oath that the person
20 whom the labor or service Of such fugitive is
alleged to be due IA his lawful owner, and has not
been in arms against the United States in tho pre
sent rebellion, nor in any way given aid and com
fort thcreto;and no person engaged In the mill.