The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-10-19
nv I'VE pfcsilent Of Tie United
states.
WAsnINaroN. SepI. 22. ls62.


WAsHINGroS, Sept. %, 1862
]. AlFaham Lincoln, President Of the
United states Of America aud Commao-
dcr-iu.cbief Of the Army and Navy
Thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare,
chat hereafter as heretofore, the war will
be prosecuted for he object Of practical
ly restoring the constitutional relations
between the United States and the peo-
pie thereof in which States that relation
is or may be suspended or disturbed; that
il ismy purpose upon the next meeting
Of Congress 10 again recommend the
adoption Of practical measure tender
ing pecuniary aid TO the free acceptance
or rejection of all the slave States, so
called, the people whereof may not then
0c in rebellion against the United States
and which States may then have velun-
tarily adopted, or thereafter may volun-
tarily adopt an immediate or gradual
adjustment Of slavery within their re-
spectivc limits; aud that the efforts to
colonize persons Of African descent, with
their consent upon the continent or
elsewhere, with the previously obtained
consent of the Government exist
dng there, will be continued. That on
the first dayof January IN The gear Of or
Lord one thousand eight hundred and sirty-
three, az persons held as SLAVES ,oitlin any
State, a ,gitlja any designated pant ofa State,
the people lolere2f shall then be 10 rebellion
against DE United States, shall Be then, thence
fo,7card and torspa free, and The Erecutiue
Government of the United States, including
ae 0uhtayyana aaUal authority thereof wid
recognise and maintain the freedom Of such
persons, and will do no act or acts to re-
press such persons, or any of them, in
any efforts they may make for their ac-
tual 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 PEG
pic thereof respectively, shall then be in
rebellion against the United States; the
fact that any State, or the people thereof
shall on that day be ia good faith repre-
sentcd 10 the Congress of The United
States ~ members chosen thereto at
elections wherein amaiority of the quail
fed voters OF such States shall have par
dcipated shall, in the absence Of strong
cowoboratvc testimony, be deemed con-
elusive evidence shat such State and the
people thereof have not been in rebellion
against the United States,
Attention is hereby called to an act Of
Congress, eptitled an act 70 make an ad-
dilional Article Of War approved March
- 1862, aud which act is in the word.
aud figures following
"Be q enacted Jy he Senate and House q
Representatives Of the United Statss, iR Con-
gress assembled, That hereafter the follow
ing shall be promulgated as an addition.
al Article OF War for the government Of
- Army Of the United States, and shall
10 Obeyed and observed as such
Article: All officers or persons in th'
ailitary on naval service Of the United
States, are prohibited from employing any
of the forces under their respective com
mands for the purpose Of returning flu
gitives from service on labor, who MAJ
have escaped from any person TO whom
such service or labor is claimed 70 b
d,,c ana on, ofieor vvhn ehaU he foun,
guilty by a court martial, OF violating
this article shall be dismissed from Ia
service.
Sec. 2. And be u hufler euaoiol, Tha
this act shall take effect from and afte
its passage"
Also to the OH and 10th sections Of a
act entitled san act 70 suppress insur
rection, TO punish treason and rebellion