The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-19
APPENDIX.
NO. 10.
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA:
PROCLAMATION

By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA:
A PROCLAMATION.
I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United
States ol America, and commandcr-in chief OF the
army and navy thereof, do hereby proclaim and
declare that hereafter, as heretofore, tue war will
DC prosecuted for the object of practically re-
storing the constitutional relation between the
United States and cacn of the states and the peo-
ye thereof, in which states that relation is may
be suspended or disturbed.
That it is my purpose, upon the next meeting
OF Con~I ess, 20 again recommend the adoption
of Il pr,ctcul measure rendering pccuniary aid to
the free acceptance or rejection of all slave states
called, the people whereof may not then be in
rebellion against the United States, and which
states may then have voluntarily adopted, or
thereafter may voluntarily adopt, immediate or
gradual adjustment of slavery within their re
spective limits: and that the effort to colouize
persons of African descent with their consent Of
the governments existing there, will be con-
tinued
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 designated part of state, the people whereof
shall then be i'll rebellion against the United
States, shall be t!ien thencefOrward, and forever
free; and the Executive Government of the Uni
ted States, including the military and naval au-
thorily thereof, will recogn re and maintain the
freedom of such persons, and will do no 'ct or
acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in
any efforts they may make for their actual free
dom.
That the Executive will, on the first day of
January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the
states and pats of states, if any, i'll which the
people thereof, respectively, shall then be in re-
beliion 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 Con-
gress of the United States by members chosen
thereto ut elections wherein a majority of the
qualified voters of such state snail nave partci
pated. shall, in the absence of strong counter
vaili,.y testimony be deemed conclusive evidence
tlot suptl and the UeODle thereof. not
then in rebellion against the United States.
That attention is hereby called to an act of
Congress entitled - An act to make an additional
article of war;" approved March l3, 1862, and
which act is in the words and figure following:
''Be it enacted by the Senate and House OF Rep
resentatives, OF the United States OF America in
Congress assembled, That hereafter the following
shall he promulgated as an additional article of
war, for the government of the army of the Uni
ted States, and shall be obeyed and observed as
such:
"Articlc-All officers or persons in the military
or naval service of the United States are prshibi-
ted from employing any of the forces under their
respective commands for the purpose of return
ing tugitives from service or labor Who may have
escaped from any persons to whom such service
or labor is claimed to he due, and any officer who
shall be found guilty by cOurt-martal of viola
ting this article shall be dismissed from the
service.
See. 3 An' be it further enacted, That this act
shall take effect from and after its passage
Also to the ninth and tenth sections of an act
entitled " An act TO suppress lnSurrectlon, to
punish treason and rebellion, TO seize and confis-
cate property of rebels, and for other purposes"
approved July II, 1862, and which sections are in
tia. words and figures following
Sec. g. And be il further enacted, That all
slaves of persons who shall hereafter be engaged
in rebellion against the Government of the Uni
ted 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 control of the
Government of the United States: and all slaves
place occupicd by rebel forces and afterwards
occupied by the forces of the United Statcs shall
he deemed captives of war. and shall be forever
free of their scrvitude, and not again held as
slaves.
See. 10. And be it further enacted, That no
slave escaping into any state, territory, or the
District Of Columbia, from any other state, saall