The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-11-23

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 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. And be IL further eaactei, That
this act shall take effect from and after
its passage
Also to the 9th and 10th sections of an
act entitled Gan act TO suppress insur-
rection, TO punish treason and rebellion,
TO seize and confiscate property of rebels,
and for other purposes, approved July
18th, 1862" and which sections are in the
words and figures following;
SECTION 8. And be ii further 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 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-
forwards occupied by the forces of the
United States, shall be deemed captures
of war, and shall be forever free Of their
servitude and not again held as slaves.
Sec 10. And be IL 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 the person claiming said
fugitive shall first make oath that the
person to whom the labor or service of
said fugitive is alleged to 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 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 l do hereby enjoin upon and or
der all persons engaged in the military
and naval service of the United States,
to 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 The United States, including The loss Of
slapes.
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
dependence of the United States the
eighty seventh.
[Signed,l ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
BY the President.
WIN. II. SEWARD, Secretary of State.