Year: 1862

PROCLAMATION by the President.
By the President Of the United States of


america.


l, Abraham Lincoln, President of the
United States of America, and Comman-
der in chief of the Army and Navy thereof
do hereby proclaim and declare that here
after as heretofore, the war will be pros
ecuted for the object of practically restor-
ing the constitutional relations between
the U. S. and each of the States and the
people thereof, in which States that rela
lion is or may be suspended or disturbed !;
that it is my purpose, upon the next meet
ing of Congress, to again recommend the
adoption of practical measure rendering
pecuniary aid to the free acceptance or
rejection of all save States so called, the
people whereof may not then be in rebel
lion against the United States, nd which
States may then have voluntarily adopted,
or thereafter may voluntarily adopt, i'm
mediate or gradual adjustment of slavery
within their respective limits; and that
the effort to colonize persons of African
descent, with their consent, upon this con-
tinent or elsewhere, with the previously
obtained consent of the Government exist
ing there, will be continued ; 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 parts 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
United States, including the military and
avail authority thereof, will recognize and
maintain the freedom of such persons, and
will do no act or acts to repress such per-
sons, or any of them, in any efforts they
make for their actual freedom that the
Executive WILL on the first day of Janua-
ry aforesaid, by proclamation, designate
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 a majority Of
the qualified voters of such State shall
have participated, shall in the absence of
such State shall have participated, shall :,
in the absence of strong countervailing
testimony, be deemed conclusive evidences
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 "An Act to
make an additional article of war;" ap-
proved March 13, 1862, and which act is
in the words and figures following:


Be II enacted, &c, That hereafter the
following shall be promulgated as an ad-
ditional article of war for the government
of the army of the United States, and
shall be observed as such articles:


All officers or persons in the military or
naval service of the United States are pro-
hibited from employing any of the forces
under their respective commands for the
purpose of returning fugitivcs from service
or labor, who have escaped from any
persons to whom such service or labor is
claimed to be due; and any officer who
shall be found guilty. shall pc dissmised
from the service.


SEC, .. And be IL further enacted, That
this act shall take effect from and after its
passage.


Also to the ninth and tenth sections of
an act, entitled Gan Act to suppress in
surection, to punish treason and rebellion,