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The Decree of EmancipationWakhiugtot,
Monday, 8ept 22.
** ; Hi/tM* President tf tiit Unit'd Stalrt cf America:
A PROCLAMATION.
I, Abbaiiam Lixcoln, President of the United
States of America, and Commander-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 the people thereof in which Ft Jes
that relation is, or may be suspended or disturbed;
that it is my purpose, upon the next meeting of
Congress, to again recommend the adoption of a
practical measure tendering pecuniary aid to the
I'rcc acceptance or rejection of all the Slave States
so called, the people whereof may not then be in
x rebellion again.-! the United States, and which
States may then have voluntarily adopted, or thereafter
may-voluntarily adopt, the immediate or
gradual abolishment of Slavery within their respective
limits; and that the cfTorts to colonize
persons of African descent with their consent, upon
the Continent or elsewhere, with the prcbusly
obtained consent of the governments existing there,
will be continued.
That on the first day of January, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree,
nil persons held as slaves within any State, or
any designated part of a State, the people whereof
shall then be in rebell on against the United States,
. shall be then, thenceforwardy and forever, free; and
the Executive Government of the United States, including
the military find naval authority thereof,
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will recognize ana maintain me nccuum ui duui
persona, and wHl do no act or acts to repress such
persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may
make for their actual freedom.
That the Executive will, on the first day of January
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 peoj4e 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 soch State shall have participated, shall, in the
absence of strong countervailing testimony, be
deeAed conclusive evidence that such State and
the people" thereof have not been 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 figure following:
" Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United 8tates of America in Congress assembled,
That hereafter the following shall be promulgated as an ad
ditional article 01 wer iur us gutcruuicutw ui am.; u.
the United States, and ahaH be obeyed and observed m such.
Article?All officers or persons in the military or naval
service of the United States are prohibited from employing
any of the forces under their respective commands for the
purpose of returning fugitives from service or labor who
may have escaped from any person to whom such service or
labor is claimed to t?e due, and an} officer who shall be
ffiund guilty by a Court-martial of violating this article
be dismissed from the service.
Suction 2. And be it further enacted that this act ?t?n
take effect from and after its passage/'
Also to the ninth and tenth sections of an act
entitled " An act to suppress insurrection, to punish
treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate
property of rebels, and for ether purposes," approved
July 17, 1862, and which sections are in
the words and figures following:
ff further enacted, that all slaves of ner
sons who shall hereafter be engaged in rebellion against the
Government of the United States, or who shall, in any way,
give aid or comfort thereto, escaping from such persons and
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 (or being
within) any place occupied by rebel forces and afterward
occupied by the forces of the United Statea, shall be deemed
captures of war and shall be forever free of their servitude
and not again held as slaves.
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted. That no slave escaping
into any State, Territory or the District of Columbia,
from any of the States, shall be delivered up, or in any way
impeded or hindered of his liberty, except for crime or
some offence against the laws, unless the person claiming
said fugitive shall first make oath that the person to whom
* the labor or service or such fugitive is alleged to be due, is
his lawful owner, and has not been in arms against the
^United States in the present rebellion, nor in any way given-' *
????i /vmrfnrt thftreto. and no neraon engaged in the mil
itary or naval service of the United States shall, under any
pretence whatever, assume to decide on the validity of the
claim of any person to the 'service or labor ef any other
person, or surrender up any such person to the claimant,
on pain of being dismissed from the service.
And I do hereby enjoin upon and order all persons
engaged in the military and naval service of
the United States, to observe, obey and enforce,
within their respective spheres of service, the act
and sections above recited.
And the Executive will in due time recommend
that all citisensof the United States who shall have
remained loyal thereto throughout the rebellion,
shall (upon the restoration of the constitutional re- I
. . htion between the United States and their respective
State* and people, if the relation shall have 4
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boon suspended or di3t.11 bed,) be compensated for
ail losses by acts of the United States, in-fading .1
Ik* Jots of slates.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my
hand, and caused the seal of the Unite 1 States to '
be affixed. v
Done at the City of Washington, this Twentysecond
day of September, in the ye ir of our Lord
una a<\naniul aifflit hnnitnvl and sixtV-ttl'O. find flf
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the independence of the United States the eightyseventh.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President.
William H. Seward Secretary of State.
A Proposition for Employing the Negroes.
Pout Royal, S. C., Sept. '25, L8C2.
Mr. Editor :?As many opinions have been
expressed in fhis Department, and in fact throughout
the couutry, in regard te the manner of " employing
contrabands that are now or may hereafter
come into our lines," and the fact of their being
employed as soldiers having caused a great deal of
dissatisfaction and ill-feeling among the officers
and men ofthis command, I most respectfully suggest
through your columns the following method
of making them usefnl?and in my humble opinion
we should make them more efficient and serviceable
in the manner I propose, than by forming
them into separate organizations.
Besides usin^ them in every capacity that they
can fill in the separate Staff Departments, as laborers,
mechanics, Ac., I would have from fifty to one
hundred negroes attached to each regiment for fatigue
purposes, policing camp, Ac., as it is a wellknown
fact that each regiment here has a daily c.ill
for a detail of men for some service or other, outside
of the wants of the regiment, besides a large
number for their own purposes.
It is almost impossible, under such circumstances,
to keep a regiment up to what it ought to
be in drill and discipline, and when reviewed or
inspected, those men who have been on extra duty
or service often "mar the whole review, and a frequent
excuse made by the commanding officer, is,
" these men have not drilled three times in a month
?they have been detailed on some service or other
and it is impossible to keep my men together."
In many a regiment a large detail is always required
to load and nnload wagons, vessels, &c.,
and in going into action they are often suffering
from fatigue and exhaustion occasioned by their
fatigue duties the day and night previousbesides
this^many men are required to remain in 1
camp to take care of property and keep out stragglers.
Now, I would have these contrabands drilled, so
that they couid perform all these services (and I
think they c.onld, nearly as well as the white soldiers,)
thereby increasing the effective force of each
regiment. They could also be employed with artillery,?carrying
ammunition, shot and shell, and
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in assisting ui many 01 uie ueuvjr uuuca muvuiuv
always necessary in that arm of the serviqe.
By thus employing them, the prejudice existing
amongst many of the officers and men in regard to
arming the blacks would be done away with, as
they could not fail to see the benefits they themselves
would derive by "employing them in this
way j?while those on the other hand who are in
favor of arming them would be satisfied when they
learned that they were more useful than they would
be in any other capacity.
I merely offer this a* a suggestion which came
to my mind on thinking the matter over; and as I
feel deeply interested in the welfare of this unfortunate
race, although not what is termed an Abolitionist.
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Dismissed.?The following named officers, by
direction of the President, were dismissed from
the service of the United States for being absent (
without proper leave from their respective com ;
mauds while the armies to which they belonged :
were fighting the enemy in the field:?Capt. 1
Thornton'Smith, Assistant Quartermaster of Vol- j
lintppra? T.ianf. John Simnn.,n. of the 99th Penn- <
sylvania Volunteers; Lieut. J. H. Harrison, of the
20th New York Volunteers ; .Surgeon Edward B. j
Dalton, of the 3Cth New York Volunteers; Capt. j
E. Valentine, Aide-de-Camp; Lieut. J. L. Christie,
Aide de-Camp ; Capt.'J. V. Patten, 78d Ohio Vol- '
nnt?>r?! Main*, n f! Austin. 12fith Pennsylvania
Volunteers; Lieut. William Warren, 38th New ,
York Volunteers; Lieut. R. P. Crawford, Aide-de- ]
Camp; Capt. John J. Sperry, 106th Pennsylvania
Volunteers.
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Abms Exough.?Some fears have been express- 1
ed lest the government should find difficulty in 1
providing arms for the new troops. The Wash- j
ington Republican states, however, that the War ;
Department has arms in readiness for all the troops
mustered in so far, and arrangements which en- ]
sure a full supply as other troops take the field.
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-^-A drunkard *8 the annoyance of modesty, the
trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the destruction
of reason. He is the thief of h s own
substance, the beggar's companion, the constable's
trouble. He is his wife's woe, his children's sorrow,
his neighbor's tcoff. his <yvn fhame. He is a ^
spiritof unrest, athing below a beast, and a monster
of a man.
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? A beggar in New Orleans approached a welldressed
ci.izen and held ont his hand for alms.
The citizen offered him a Confederate note. .No, ^
said the poor fellow, taking a mournful survey of S
his own dilapidated dress, I hare too many rags
already.
MARINE HEWSARRIVED.
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Sept. 19?Bark Parker Cook, Fulton, Fenian dina
; Schr. Edw. H. Webster, Spicer, New York;
21?Brig 8. R. Allen, Baker, New York; 23?
U. S. 8. Connecticut , Key West; Steamer
Gen Burnside, Wilcox, 1-erBandina; 24?Brig
Abby E:len, Gilmore, Phila ; 23?Steamship; m
Ericsson, Lowber, New York ; Steamer Neptune,
Lynch, St. Augustine ; Bark A. A. Drebert, Kcudd*jr,
Phila.; Schr. Marietta Tilton, Tilton, Phila.; ^
26?Schr. Tunis Depew, Edmonds, St. Augustine;
Schr. John Walker, Bunnell, New York.
CLEARED. *
Sept. 20.?Steamship Aiago, Gadsden, New
York; 24?Brig Humming Biid, Pultz, New York;
Sch. Trojan, Shourds, Phila.; Schr. John Guyant,
Smith, St. Augustine; '25?brig Intended, White,
Phila.; Schr. Edw. H. Webster, Spicer, New
York. X
SAILED. ... ?
Sept. 20?Bark Parker Cook; Steamship Arago;
23?U. S. S. Connecticut; 25?Biig Humming
Bird.
DEATHS.
Private Lawrence Barrow, Co. I, 47th New
York Vols., Sept. 11, (last week reported Pennsylvania
Vols.)
George Sweetner, Private, Co. B, 7th N. H. - '
Vols., Sept. 12.
Charles p. Kimball, Private, Co. K, 7th N. H.
Vols., Sept. 15.
Patrick Barns, Private, Co. G, 7th N. H. Vols , A
Sept. 14.
Henry Oliver, Private, Co. I, 7th N' H. Vols.,
Sept. 15.
Horace Benton, Private, Co. K, 7th N. H. Vols.,
Sept. 15.
Wm. E. Lock, Private, Co. A, 76th Penn'a.
Vols., Sept. 16.
Charles Stearns, Private, Co. H,7th N. H. Vols, ;
Sept. 16. .
Thos. L. Rich, Private, ~o. A, 3d N.H. Vols.,
Sept. 17.
Morris Winn, Private, Co. B, 7th N. H. Vols ,
Sept. 18. ^
llenry L. Brown, Private, Co. K, 48th N. Y.
Vols., Sept. 15.
r. J. Urontou, mvate, Co. o, an conn. v ois.,
Sept. 18.* .
George Br van, Private,'Co. E, 47th N. Y. Vols.,
Sept. 18.
George Green, Private, Co. G, 97th Pennsylvania,
Sept. 20, typhoid fever.
James McKee, bergeant, Co. F, 47th New York,
Sept. 19, Acute Dysentery.
Wm. Potter, Private, Co. B, 76th Pennsylvania,
Sept. 21, Pys&err.
John Cutty, Private, Co. C, 8d New Hampshire, 41
Sept. 21, Dysentery. :. . ,
E. Peters, Private, Co. I, 76th Pennsylvania,
Sept. 21, Dysentery. ^
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