The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-10-31
4 PROCLAMATION
September II, 1862.
10y the President OF the united
States.


WAsmNGToS, Sept %, 1862.
J, Abraham Lincoln, President Of the
United States Of America, aud Comman-
der-in.chief OF the Army and Navy
thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare,
that hereafter, a. 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
il is my purpose upon the next meeting
Of Congress 20 again recommend the
adoption Of practical measure tender
ing pecuniory aid to the free acceptance
D. rejection Of all the slave States, so
called, the people whereof may not then
ue in rebellion against the United States
aud which States may then have yOlun-
tarily adopted, or thereafter may volun-
tarily adopt, On Immediate or gradual
adjustment of slavery within their re-
spectivc limits; and that the efforts TO
colombo persons Of African descent, with
their consent upon tue continent, or
elsewhere, with the previously obtained
consent Of Che Government exist
ing there, will be continued. That on
the FIRST day@ JoauarA in the gear Of our
Lood, one hopsaHa eight hundred anil sirty-
Hree, all persons he'll as slares ,0iAin any
gate, ii, ,oitiip any designated part Qfa state,
He people ,oberegf shall then be in rebellion
against tie Ua'te1 States, shall Be HeR, thence
torrayl anil .torere Zee and de Erecutive
Government 81 the United States, iacluaing
the miltuyo0d naval authority thereof cW
recognise ANT maintain the f-ee{oa 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-
lual freedom; that the Executive will, on
the FIRST day OF January aforesaid, by
proclamation, designate the States, and
parts Of States, il any, in which the peo-
pie thereof respectively, shall then be in
rebellion against the United States; the
Aact that any State, 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 az
elections wherein amajerity of the quail
fed voters Of such States shall have par
ticipated shall, in the absence of strong
corroboratiye testimony, be deemed 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
ditionsl Article of War, approved March
49, 1862 aud which act is in the words
and figures following;
"Bea enacted by ne Saiaie and House Of
Representatives Of the United Statss an 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
/ beiobeycd aud observed as such
Article All officers or persons in the
military or naval service of the United
states, are prohibited from employing any
of the forces undertheir respective COM
mands for the purpose Of returning flu
gitivos from service on labor who may
haye escaped from any person TO whom
such service on 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
4 service.
Sec. =. Apd be 10 turtle, enacted, That
this act shall take effect from and after
is passage
Also 20 the Oh and 10th sections of-an
act entitled "an act a. suppress insur-