NEWS FROM WASHINGTON: Important Proclamation of the President; AN ACTIVE AND VIGOROUS WAR POLICY (7/28/1862)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 7/28/1862

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A PROCLAMATION.

In pursuance of the sixth section of the Act of Congress entitled "An Act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which Act, and the joint resolution explanatory thereof, are herewith published, I, ABRABAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, do hereby proclaim to and warn all persons within the contemplation of said sixth section to cease participating in, aiding, countenancing, or abetting the existing rebellion, or any rebellion, against the Government of the United States, and to return to their proper allegiance to the United States, on pain of the forfeitures and seizures as within and by said sixth section provided.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington, this twenty-fifth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-seventh. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

By the President:

WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.

OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DISPATCHES.

RETURN OF THE GENERAL-IN-CHIEF

WASHINGTON, Sunday, July 27.

Gens. HALLECK and BURNSIDE returned here from Fortress Monroe at 11 o'clock this morning. The former immediately after his arrival called upon the President and Secretary of War. Nothing is or will be known for several days of the intention and purposes of the new General-in-Chief. This much is understood -- we are to have at once some demonstrations of an active and vigorous war policy. Gen. POPE bad a lengthy interview with Gen. HALECK this evening . He leaves to-morrow for Warrenton.

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News from Washington: Important Proclamation of the President – 2
The Army of the Potomac: Gens. Halleck, Dix, Meigs and Burnside on a Visit to Gen. McClellan – 2
The Army of Virginia: A March from Washington to Culpepper – 3
The War on the Mississippi: Gen. Sherman at Memphis – 3-4
The War in Kentucky – 4
The Guerrillas in Tennessee – 4
The Sanitary Commission: Letter from the Executive Committee to the President – 4-5
The Place of the Balloon in Military Science – 5
Base Ball – 5
Editorial: The President’s Proclamation – Sovereign and Belligerent Rights of the Government – 5-6
The New Muster of Troops – What Shall be Done? – 6
A Fresh Specimen of Southern Civilization – 6
Editorial: Health Matters in the Army – 6-7