The Scotsman - Tuesday, 7th October 1862, page 3

THE _PRESIDENT'S EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION .

THE following is the text of the emancipation proclamation of the President:— Washington. September 22, 1862. I, _Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, and _commander-ill-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 politically restoring the constitutional relations between the United _States _and the people thereof in which States that _rel.ition 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 free _acceptance or rejection of all the Slave States, so-called , the people whereof may not then be in rebellion _against the United States, and which _States may tlien have voluntarily adoptedor thereafter may _voluntarily adopt_, the immediate or _gradual _abolishment of slavery within the _respective limits, and that the _efforts to colonise persons of African descent, with their consent, upon the _Continent or _elsewhere, with the _previouslyobtained consent of the Governments _existing there, will be continued ; that on the 1st day of _January, in _(he year of our Lord 1863, all persons held as _slaves within any Stateor any _designated_. part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion _against the United States_, shall be _then, thenceforward, and for ever free, and the Executive Government of the United States, _including the _military and naval authority thereof, will recognise 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 for _their actual freedom, that the _Executive will, on the 1st day of January aforesaid, by _proclamation , designate the States or part of the _States, it any, in which the people thereof, _respectively , _f-hall 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 the said State _shall have _participated , shall , in _the absence of long _countervailing testimony, be deemed _conclusive- evidence that such State, and the people thereof, have not been _iu rebellion a"ainst the United _States. That _attention is thereby called_, to an Act of _Congress, entitled "An Act to make an additional article of war," approved March 13,1862, _and which Act ia in the words _and _figure _following :— " Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Itepre-Btntatives of the United States of America_, in _Con"ress awembled , that hereafter the following shaU be _promulgated aa an additional article of war for the _government of the army of the United _States, and _shall be obeyed and _observed as roe_!; :— " Article_._—All officera 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 _or _returning _fugitives from _service or labour who may have escaped from any person to whom such service or labour is claimed to be done, and _any _officer who shall have been found guilty by cour _t-martial of violating this article _shall be _diemissed _frum the _service_. "Section 2_. And be it farther enacted that _this article _shall take effect from and after ita passage." Also to the ninth and tenth sections of an Act entitled " An act to _suppress insurrection, to _punish tieason and rebellion, to seize and _confiscate property of rebels, and for other _purposes," approved July 17,1862, and which _sections are in the words and figure following:— ' Section 9. And be it _further _enacted, that all _slaves of _perrona who shall hereafter be engaged in rebellion _against the Government of the United _States_, or who tbaU _in any way give aid and comfort thereto, _escaping from _such _persons , and _taking _refuge within the lines of the army; and all _slaves _cantnred from _such _persons_, or _deserted by themand _coming under the control _of the United States; and _aU _slaves of such persons found on (or being within) any place _occupied _by rebel forces_, _and afterwards occupied by the _forces _of the United _States, _shall be deemed captives of war, and shall _ba for ever _free of their _servitude, and not _again held _as _alaves. " Section 10. And be it _further enacted_, that no slave ewaping into any State, territory, or district of Columbia_, from any of the _States_, _shall be delivered up, or in _any way impeded or _hindered from his liberty, _except from crime or some offence _against the _law, _unless the _person c l aiming the said fugitive shall first _make oath that the _person to whom the labour or _service of _such fugitive is alleged to be due_, _is the lawful owner, and _has not been in _anos _against _the United _States in the _persent rebellion_, nor in any way given aid and comfort thereto ; and no _person _engaged _in the military or naval service of the United _States wall, _under _any _pretence whatever, _aaaume to decide on _the validity of the claim to the service or _labour of _any other _person, or _surrender up any _such _person to the claimant_, on pain of being _dismissed from the errice." And I do hereby _enjoin upon and_. order all _persons _engaged in the military or 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 _timerecommend that all citizens of the United States who shall have remained loyal _thereto throughout the _rebellion , shall (upon the _restoration of the constitutional _relation between the United States and_. their _respective states and _people , if the _relation_, shall _have _been _suspended or disturbed), be _compensated for all _losses_, by acts of the United States, _including' the _loss of _slaves_. In witness whereof I have _hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be _affixed. _ABRAHAM LINCOLN. _Done at the city of _Washington, _this 22d_. day of September, in the year of our Lord ouo _thousand eight _hundred_, and _sixty-two , and of the independence of _the- United States the eighty-seventh , by the _President. WILLIAM H_. SEWAED, Secretary _ef State, THE SITUATION. _THE _UPPER POTOMAC. _The Berald of the _24th says:—" Telegraphic _news from General M'Clellan's army, yesterday, states that all was _quiet at the Shepherdstown Pord, the _forces on either side _cautiously watching each other. _The rebels were _keeping' their men out of view; but it _was thought that they were in hopes of entrapping _some of-our _troops in an _ambush if _they ventured over the river at that point_, _"We-hold _Hharpsburg and Williamsport, _without the possibility of being assailed_, at eithe pointwhile it is _said _that the rebels are not _posted in much _force opposite the former place. The rebelsit _is reportedadmit a terrible loss of officers in the battle of AnUetam, _Generals Branch, _" _North Carolina, and Colqnit , of Georgia , being _lulled; and Generals Longstreet, Anderson, and _Wright were wounded- They acknowled"e to a joea of _£0,_000 in this _battle, and 30,000 since they invaded Maryland_. The Pennsylvania _militia_, _Having gallantly done _their duty on the _border, _havebeen _sent home, their _services _being no longer _required at that point_. . _"MS" _?' _11 _"_^ from Hatrishurg, yesterday, _reports that pur troops _were _crossins-the Potomac _mto Virginia at WilUamsport, _at" which place _° _,_? rh _' _tV ldlanhat 1 his head-quarters . 16 was add that General Kenl _y was in the advance on _Sunday night , and that General Couch _followed on Monday, preceding _General Franklin's division, .which was to follow immediately. _Out correapoBdence fromHagerstown _, however, locates General Kenly at that place on _Sunday, where he had_. _just arrived from _Baltimore. _There is probably some mistake in the statement that he had led the advance on that night across the river. Despatches from Marrisburg _last _evening say that the entire of the _rebels have _not yet abandoned Maryland but that they are _in considerable numbers _around Williamsport, and that heavy _skirmishing is going on in that _vicinity on both sides of the river. A cavalry reconnaissance was sent out from _Washington by General Banks as far as Ashley Gap, in the Blue pidge _Mountains, yesterday , and dispersed a regiment of rebels who were hanging about therecapturing several of them._' They _were sent _out to _capture a heavy train of.pro visions , said to be' on its way _South, _but they failed _tomietit . _^ . .j_: : , . . . „_.:, -;, : . .;.:

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