Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1863-03-18
Important Proclamation by the President.
WASHINGTON. March 10.


Important Proclamation by the President,
WASHINGTON, March 10.
THE Chronicle of tomorrow will con-
tain the following proclamation by the
President of the United States respecting
soldiers absent without leave:
EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 10.
In pursuance of the 26th section of an
act of Congress entitled Gan act for en-
rolling and calling out the national for
ces, approved March 3, 1868, I, Abra-
ham Lincoln, President and Commander
in-chief of the Army and Navy of the
United States, do hereby order and com
mand, that all soldiers enlisted of drafted
into the service of the United States, now
absent from their regiments without leave,
shall forthwith return to their respect
regiments, and do hereby declare and
proclaim, that all soldiers now absent
from their respective regiments without
leave, who shall, on or before the 1st of
April, 1868, report themselves at any
rendezvous designated by the General
Orders of the War Department, No. SO,
may be restored to their respective regi-
ments without punishment, except the
forfeiture of pay and allowances during
their absence; and all who do not return
within the time above specified, shall be
arrested as deserters and punished as the
law provides; and, whereas, evil-dispos-
ed and disIoyal persons, at sundry places,
have enticed and induced soldiers to de-
sert and absent themselves from their
regiments, thereby weakening the streng-
tn of the armies, and prolonging the war,
and giving aid and comfort to the enemy,
and cruelty exposing the gallant and
faithful soldiers remaining in the ranks
to increased hardships and dangers, do,
therefore, call upon all patriotic and
faithful citizens to oppose and resist the
aforementioned dangerous and treason
able crimes, and aid in restoring to their
regiments all soldiers absent without
leave, and to assist in the execution of
the act of Congress for enrolling and
calling out the national forces and for
other purposes, and to support the prop
er authorities in the prosecution and
punishment of offenders against said act,
and in suppressing the insurrectiOn and
rebellion.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand; done at the city of Wash
ington, this tenth day of March, A. D.
1863, and of the Independence of the
United States the eighty-seventh.
TSigned7, ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President.
E. NJ. STANTON, Secretary of War.
THE New York Herald of the Sd,
said:
"Sumner and his fellow conspirators,
including Greeley, regard the Union with
slavery in it 'as a covenant with death
and an agreement with hell and will
never permit its restoration if they can
prevent it, 30
The Richmond Enquirer, of the 9TH,
copies this and says;
ave begin to love those worthy con-
spiraters Cincluding Greeley. We also
regard the old Union as covenant with
death and an agreement with hell. Only
death and hell in the same region where
Satan of old mustered his host-'in the
regions of the North. We also, like the
inestimable conspirators aforesaid, will
never permit the restoration of that foul
covenant and agreement, if we can pre-
vent it. Therefore, go ahead, conspira-
tOrsl'
THE Indianapolis journal publishes
the following:
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
WASHINGTON CITY, March 4. (
FRIEND. SULGRovE-WIl you oblige
me by handing the enclosed check for
S629.34 to the Indiana Commission for
the benefit of our sick and wounded SOL
dierS? It is the mileage voted to me for
the third session of the 9th Congress,
which closes to-day, and which I prefer
they should have.
Yours truly, SCHUYLER CoLFAx.
We wonder how many more patriotic
CongressmeQ Will follow the noble exam
pie set them by Mr. Colfax? Mr. Colfax
is, We believe, the only editor in Con
0racs Tbis accounts for his haDnvO