The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-10-24
Hy the presidents OF She United
States.
WAsulNuroy, Sept. %, 1862.

WAsHlNuToy, Sept %, 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
il 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
oo in rebellion against the United States
and which States may then have volun-
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. I hat on
the first daycf JaauayH IN The gear Of ON
Lard, one thousand eiglA hundred and sir,y-
three. all persons held as SLAVES vitlin any
State, or w,tlia any designated part ofa State,
Hep.ople Uisye9f shall then De do reLeL'ioa
ag1iast the United Suites, shall jetiea, Heace-
forward ANIL tor,ger free, a73 The Executive
Government Of the United States, iacluliag
6se military and uaval authority Hereqf viii
recognize and a,aiataia The freeiom 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 freedoms 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 ia
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
corroboratiye 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
19, 1862, and which act Is in the words
and figures following:
"Bed enacted blythe Senate and House Of
Representatives Of he United Statss, IN Con-
gress assembled, That hereafter the follow
ing shall be promulgated as an addition.
al Article OF War for the government of
ile 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
gitiyes from service or labor, who may
have escaped from any person 70 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. o Agdh t further enacted, That
this act shall take effect from and after
itspassage.'
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