The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-10-08

colonize persons Of African descent, with
their consent, upon the continent, or
elsewhere, with the previously obtained
consent Of the Government exist
ing there, viii be continued. 7hat on
he first dagof @ea1arH IN he yeur Of or
Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sirty-
a'ree, al persons held as SLAVES ,oitEin ann
STATE, or '0ithia eng designated part ofa &ais,
The people 'oheregf s1aH then be ia REBELLION
against The United States, shall Be fsen, thence.
Jo'Toard and toracr free, and TIE E5ecutivs
Government Of Gle United States, i1o1,slino
NE military and naval authority thereof ,gi7
recognize and maintain he frselona Of such
persons, and win do no act or acts 70 re-
press such persons, or any of them, in
any efforts they may make for their ao-
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 amaiority of the quail
fled 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
ID, 1862, and which act is in the words
and figures following;
"BeH enacted by the Senate and House Of
Representatives Of the United Siatss, 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
be Obeyed and 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 under their respective com.
mands for the purpose of returning fu-
gluves 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. Aua be ID further enacted. That |
this act shall take effect from and after |
its passage"
Also TO the 9th and 10th sections of an
act entitled an act to suppress insur-
rection, 10 punish treason and rebellion,
to seize and conGscate property of rebels,
and for other purposes, approved July |
18th, 1862" and which sections are in the
words and figures following:
SEoTIoN 8. And be IL fn11ey enacted, |
That all the slaves of persons who shall |
be engaged in rebellion against /
the Government of the United States, or
who shall in any way give aid OF COM
fort thereto, escaping from such persons,
and taking refuge within the limits Of /
the army, and all slaves captured from
such persons, or deserted by them and
coming under the control of the Govern
ment Of the United States, and all slaves
of such persons on or being within any
place occupied by rebel forces, and af-
terwards occupied by the forces of the
United States, shall be deemed captures
of war, and shall be forever free of their
seryitude and not again held as slaves.
SEC. 10. And he % FURTHER enacted, That no
slave escaping into any slave territory or
the District Of Columbia, from any of the
States shall be delivered up, or in any
way impeded or hindered of his liberty,
except for crime or some olienso against
the laws, unless the person claiming said
fugitive shall first make oath that the
person 10 whom the labor or service of
said fugitive is alleged 10 be due, is his
lawful owner, and has not been in arms
against the United States in the present
rebellion, nor in any way given aid or
comfort thereto: and no person engaged
in the military or naval service Of the
United States shall, under any Rretense
assume TO decide on the valid
ity of the claims of any person to the SER
vice or labor of any other person or
up any such person 10 the
claimant on pain of being dismissed
from the service,
And l do hereby cnioin upon aud orr
der all persons engaged in the military
and naval service of the United States,
10 obey and enforce within their respec-
tive spheres of service, the Article and
Sections above recited And the Exec
utivc will in due time recommend that
all citizens Of the United States who
shall have remained loyal thereto
throughout the rebellion, shall, upon the
of the Constitutional rela-
tions between the United States and their
respective States and people, il the rela-
ton shall have been suspended or dis
turbed, be compensated for all losses Jy acts
Of 2e United States iacIlding he loss Of
Slaves.
In witness whereof have hereunto set
my hand and casued the seal Of the Uni
ted States to be affixed.
Done at the City Of Washington this
the twenty-second day Of September, in
the year Of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-two, and Of the In
of the United States tbe /
eighty seventh.
[signed,l ABRAHAM LINCOLN |