The National tribune., 1908-01-09
CAMPAIGN.
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had come out n obedience to the sec
ond call, were swelling the ranks with
magnificent new regiments. By the
middle of October Mcclellan had with
him fully 114,000 electives. Rarely on
any battlefield in the long history Of
war has there appeared an army Of
such colossal strength and thoro ef-
fectiveness.
While McCfellan's army was growing,
Lees was also, and the less than 40, 900
men who had quietly stolen away across
the Potomac in the night of Sept. IS
had by the rigorous enforcement of the
Confederate conscription been raised to
an aggregate of something like 10000
effectives.
The outcome of the battle Of Antie-
tam had been a severe blow to the hopes
of the Confederates, whose expectations
had been raised to the highest pitch by
the continued successes from Richmond
to Manassas. and they were looking for
ward in full anticipation of seeing eth
er Baltimore or Washington under their
flag. 1t could not be concealed from
them that in spite of all the vaIor of
their soldiers. Antietam had gone
against them, and the army had slipped
away from the enemy under the cover
of darkness. Yet the South. like the
North, was of that indomitabIe temper
that misfortunes and reverses only
| idiSSQ II " HlSutT 10 VIII y
The Emancipation Proclamation.
The pressure upon President Lincoln
to take some decisive step against slay-
cry had increased enormously with the
progress Of the war, and the New Eng
land States had been especially insistent
that he should issue proclamation Of
emancipation. He is reported to have
said that he had promised his God that
if victory was given him he would
signalize it by decisive step in the
direction Of freedom to the enslaved.
1t was manifestly improper to do this
while the Confederate armies were
marching triumphantly upon loyal soil;
but five days after Antietam he issued
the following epoch-making State docu-
|ment:
II. Abraham Lincoln, President of the
United States of America and Com
mander-in-Chief Of the Army and Navy
thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare
that hereafter, as heretofore, the war
will be prosecuted for the object of
practically restoring the constitutional
relation between the United States and
each of the States and the people there
of. 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 recon-
mend the adoption Of practical meas
ure rendering pecuniary aid to the free
acceptance or rejection of all Slave
States. SO called, the people whereof
may not then be in rebellion against the
United States, and which States may
then have voluntarily adopted, or there
after may voluntarily adopt, immediate
or gradual abolishment of slavery with
in their respective limits; and that the
effort to coloniZe persons of African de-
scent, with their consent. upon this con-
tinent or elsewhere, with the previously
obtained consent of the Governments
existing there, will be continued.
THAT on the first day of January. in
the year of our Lord 1863, all persons
held as slaves within any State, or des-
ignated part Of a State, the people
whereof shall then be in rebellion
against the United States, shall be then,
thenceforward and forever free; and
the Executive Government of the Unit
ed States, including the military and
naval authority thereof, will recognize
and maintain the freedom of such per-
SONS, and will do no act or acts to re-
press such persons, or any of them, in
any efforts they may make for their
actual freedom.
THAT the Executive will, on the 1st
day of January aforesaid, by proclama-
ton, designate the States and parts of
HotdtCS, IL any III WHICH, Tie ptCpte there
Of respectively shall then be in rebel
lion against the United States; and the
fact that any State or the people there
Of shall on that day be in good faith
represented in the Congress of the Unit
ed States, by members chosen thereto
at elections wherein a majority of the
qualified voters of such State shall have
participated, shall. in the absence of
strong countervailing testimony, be
nnt Inc CiNyn ovid hot 4,
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 AN act to make
an additional Article of War; approved
March 13, 1862, and which act is in the
words and figures following:
BE it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the United
States in 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 obeyed and
observed as such:
Section 1. All officers or persons in
the military or naval service of the
United States are prohibited from en-
ploying any of the forces under their
respective commands for the purpose
of returning fugitives from service or
labor who may have escaped from any
persons to whom such service or labor
is claimed to be due; and other officers
who shall be found guilty by court
martial of violating this article shall be
dismissed from the service.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted,
That this act shall take effect from and
after it's passage
ALSO, to the ninth and tenth sections
of an act, entitled An act to suppress
insurrection, to punish treason and re-
bellion, to seize and confiscate property
of rebels, and for other purposes ap-
proved July Is, 1862, and which Sec
tions are in the words and figures fol-
lowing:
Sec. 9. And be it further enacted.
That all 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 per-
sons 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 of such persons found on (orl
being within any place occupied by
rebel forces and afterward occupied by
forces of the United States, shall be |
deemed captives of war, and shall be
forever free of their Servitude and not
gain held as slaves
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted. |
That no slave escaping from any state, |
Territory or the District Of CoI,,rohia /