The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-10-17
September II, 1862.
a PROCLAMATION.
By lhe President OF The Unitcd
states
WAsnrNeroS, Sept. %, 1862.

WAsHEGToN, Sept. %, 1862.
I, Abraham Lincoln, President Of the
United States Of America, and Comman-
der-in.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 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
it is my purpose upon the next meeting
of Congress TO 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
be 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-
spective limits; and 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
ing there, will be continued. 1hat on
Tie first dag Of january, an the gear Of our
Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sirty-
three all persons held as slaves ,oitlia any
State, or a0jtbia any designated part Of State
the people ,0lere2f shall then be IN rebellion
against The United States, shall be then, thence
forward md foreper free, and the E5ecutiUe
Government al the United States iaclltaiaq
the miltuyond naUal authority He,eof a0tB
recognize 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 peo-
pie 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 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 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
ditional Article Of War; approved March
I3, 1862, and which act is in the words
and figures following:
"Bs 10 enacted Jyt 9e Senate and House Of
Representatives Of the United StatSS, IN Con-
gyess 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
be obeycd and observed as such:
Article: All officers OF persons in the
military 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 flu
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, 2. Ind Be q h,tS enacted, That
this act shall take effect from and after
IFS passage"
Also to the 9th and 10th sections Of al
act entitled "an act DO suppress insur