The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-10-26
A PROCLAMATION,
By the President OF the Onitcd
states.
WAgnINaToN, SepL. p, l8G2.

WASHINGTON, Sept p, 1862.
J., 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
orreieciion OF all the slave States, so
called, the people whereof may not then
De in rebellion against the United States
and which States may then have voun-
tarily adopted, or thereafter may voun-
tarily adopt, an immediate or gradual
adjustment Of slavery within their re-
spectiye 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 7Aat on
the first day ef January in the gear Of our
Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sirty-
three, all persons held as slaves ,0idiin any
State, or ,oitbip any designated part of State,
the people ,0iec2f shall then be in rebellion
against he United States, shall be then, Hclce-
forward aad f@sUsr fee and tie ErecutiDe
Government Of the United Suites, iacllliaq
ne aliHtarya and naval authority thereof aoiH
recognize and maintain the freedom of such
persons, and win 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 majority OF the quail
fed voters of such States shall have par
ticipated, shall, in the absence Of strong
corroborat.ye 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
10, 1862, and which act is in the words
and figures following:
"BeH enacted byhs Senate and House Of
Representatives Of he 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
tho 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 may
have escaped from any person TO 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. Ind Be- 70 further enacted, That
this act shall take effect from and after
its passage
Also to the 9th aud 10th sections of am
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