The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-06-09

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African descent within their limits.
The proclamation also contained a
law of the United States Congress
approved March 18th, 1862, forbidding
military Or navabofficers 1toreturn to
their owners escaped slaves if said
owners were engaged in rebellion
But if they were not so engaged ain
rebellion ON proof Of the fact by
oath Of the parties, the absorbing
property was directed to be surren-
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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
5Es" STATES OF AMERICA: r ai3fl'.t
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i, Abraham Lincoln, President 5of
the United States of America, and
commandments chief of the army and
navy thereof, do hereby proclaim and
declare that hereafter, as heretofore,
the war aoill be prosecuted for tie object
of pract;cahy restoring The constitutional
relation betweem The United States and
each Of the States and The people thereof,
in which States that relation is or may
be suspended or disturbed eds p re
That it is my, purpose, upon the
next meeting Of Congress,i9to again
recommend the adoption of practi-
cal measure rendering pecuniary aid
to the. free acceptance or rejection Of
all slave States, so-calleds the people
whereof may not then be inrebellion
against the United States, and which
States may then have voluntarily adop-
ted, or thereafter may voluntarily
adopt, immediate or gradual abolish
ment of slavery within their respective
limits and that the effort to coIonize
persons of African descent with their
consent upon this continent or else
where, with the previously obtained
consent of the governments existing
there, will be continued. !, sdI ..ao q.
That on the first day of January. in
the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty three, I all
persons held as slaves within any
State or designated part Of State, the
people whereof shall then be in rebel
lion against the United States, shall be
then, thenceforward, and forever free
and the Executive Government of the
United States, Including the military
and naval authority thereof, will re-
cognize and maintain the freedom of
such persons. and will do no act or
acts to repress such persons, or any of
them, in any efforts they may make
! tor their actual freedom. s.,s ~ =,
That the Executive will, on fhe first
day of January aforesaid, by procla-
nation, designaoe the States and parts
of States, if any, in which the people
thereof, respectively, 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 partic-
ipated, shall in the absence of strong
countervailing testimony, be deemed
conclusive evidence that such State,
and the people thereof, are not then
| in rebellion against the United States.
That attention is hereby called to an
act of Congress entitled can act to
make an additional article Of war;"
approved March Ii, 1862, end Which
/ act is in the words and figure follow
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| Sec. 10, And be it further enacted,
That no slave escaping into any State,
territory, or the District of Columbia,
from any other State, shall be deliv-
| cred up, or in any way impeded or
hindered of his liberty, except for
crime, or some offence against the
laws, atnless Me1person claiming said fl
| gitioe shall first make, oath that The per-
son TO aohona the tabor or service Of sacA
i .fugitiUe as alleged to be due as has taseful
owfer, and has moi borne arms against
! The United States IN Mepresent rebellion,
nor an a'ay Woy gsven aid and comfort
thereto; and no person engaged in the
/ military or naval service of the United
! States shall, under any pretence what
ever, assume to decide on the validity
| OF the claim of any person to the SER
vice or labor of any other person. or
surrendeEnap any such person Ito the
claimant, onopaina of being dismissed
4 fromithe service. "sao' 955 ha&
T. And do hereby enjoin upon and
order all persons: engaged in the mil
itaryl and naval service tof the United
States to observe, obey, and enforce,
4 within their respective spheres Of SER
Il vice, the act and sections above reci-
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] soiaAnd the Executive Will in due time
frecommend that ar citizens of the
! United States who shall hayeremained
loyal throughout the rebellion shall
Il upon the restoration Of the econstitu-
tiona, relation between, the United
States and their respective States and
people, Naturalization shall have been
suspended or distarbed1 be conpen-
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