The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-10-30
A PROCLAMATION.
by The President of the united
states.
WAsHNGToy, Sept. %, 1862.

WAbHlNGION; sept u, loOS
], Abraham Lincoln, President of the
United States Of America, and Comman-
der-iD chief Of the Army and Navy
thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare,
shat hereafter, as heretofore, the war will
be prosecuted for the object of practical
" 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
10 is my purpose upon the next meeting
of Congress to again recommend the
adoption Of a practical measure tender
ing pecuniary aid to the free acceptance
~ rejection OF all the slave States, so
called, the people whereof may not then
0e in rebellion against the United States
and which States may then have volun-
tarily adopted, or thereafter may volun-
tarily adopt an immediate or gradual
adjustment of slavery within their re-
spcctive limits; and that the efforts to
colonize persons of African descent, with
sheir consent, upon the continent or
elsewhere, with the previously obtained
consent Of the Government exist
ing there, will be continued. That on
Ae first dayof January, IN the gear Of our
Lord, oaeStl,owana eight hundred and Sjrty-
three, all persons held as Slaves oitlin any
state, or Uitlin any designated part ofa State,
Ae people l0bc,oof shall then be in rebellion
against the United States, shall be then, thence
y0}oar2 tuld foraer free, and the Erecutivs
G0gNmaeR Of the United States, including
he military and paral owl@Tty Heregf DiH
recognise amt maiataia tie freedom Of such
gofsgas, 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 peo-
pie thereof respectively, shall then be in
rebellion against the United States; the
fact that any Stale or the people thereof,
shall on that day be in good faith repre-
sented in the Congress of the United
States by members chosen thereto at
elections wherein amajerity of the quail
fed voters of such States shall have par
ticipated, shall, in the absence of strong
corroborative testimony, be deeGied con-
elusive evidence that such State and the
people thereof have not been in rebellion
against the United States.
Attention is hereby called to an act of
Congress, entitled an act TO make an adj
4itional Article of War, approved March
10, 1862 and which act is in the words
and figures following;
"BeH enacted by he Senate and House Of
Representatives Of Uie United Slatss, IN Con-
gress assembled, That hereafter the follow
ing shall be promulgated as an addition
al Article OF War for the government of
the Army OF the United States, and shall
bSsobeyed and observed as such
Article; All officers or persons in the
mHitary or naval service of the United
states, are prohibited from employing any
of the forces under their respective COM
mands for the purpose of returning fu-
gitives from service or labor who may
have escaped from any person TO whom
such service or labor is claimed to be
due, and any officer who shall be found
guilty by a court martial, OF violating
this article shall be dismissed from the
service,
Sec ?. and be u further enacted, Tha
chs act shall take effect from and afte
is passage
Also to the 9th aud 10th sections Of al
act entitled "an act to suppress insur
rection, 10 punish treason aud rebellion