The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-11-05


JoIOard and frspy free, and he Executive
Govonmed Of he United Suites, including
The military and naval authority 6'erect, ,oiH
recognize and maintain he 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, il 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 10 good faith repre-
sented in the Congress of the United
States by members chosen thereto at
elections wherein majority 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
diiional Article Of War, approved March
-, 1862, and which act is in the words
and figures following:
"Beu enacted By the Senate and House Of
Representatives. Of The United Stats8, IN Con-
gre8s assembled, That hereafter the follow
ing shall be promulgated as an addition
al Article of War fof Tie 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 flu
gitives from service or labor WHO BnAy
have escaped from any person. 10 whom
such service or labor is claimed TO be
due, aud any officer who shall be found
guilty by court martial Of violating
this article shall be dismissed from the
service
Sec. 2. A,ld be 10 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, TO punish treason and rebellion,
to seize and confscate property of rebels,
and for other purposes, approved July
18th, 1867" and which sections arein the
words and figures following:
SECTION o. And be 10 fi,the, enacted,
That all the slaves of persons who shall
hereafter be engaged in rebellion against
the Government Of the United States, or
who shall in any way give aid or COM
fort thereto, escaping from such persons,
and taking gefdge within the limits of
the army, and all slaves captured from
such persons, or deserted by them and
coming underline c6ntrol 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-
forwards occupied by the forces of the
United States, shall be deemed captures
OF war, and shall be forever free of their
scrvitude and not again held as slaves.
SEC 10. And be II 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 Offense against
the laws, unless tbeperson claiming said
fugitive shall 6rst make oath that the
person to whom the labor or service of
said fugitive is alleged 20 be due, is his
lawful owner, aud 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 pretense
whatever, assume to decide on the valid
ity of the claims of any person TO the ser
vice or labor of any other person or
surrender up any such person to the
claimant on pain Of being dismissed
from the service.
And do hereby enjoin upon and or
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
utive will in due time recommend that
all citizens Of the United States who
shall have remained loyal thereto
throughout the rebellion, shall, upon the
restoration of the Constitutional rela-
tions between the United States and their
respective States and people, if the rela-
ton shall have been suspended or dis
turbed, be compensated for all losses By acts
Of DE United States, including Die loss Of
Slaaes.
In witness whereof have hereuntO set
my hand and casued the seal of the Uni
ted States to be affixed "
Done AZ the Civ of Washington this