The daily bulletin. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn) 1862-1863, 1862-10-04
Old Abe's Proclamation Freeing
the Slaves of Rebels.

lamatiOn OF President Lincoln, declar.
ing free the slaves of all rebels from
and after the first of January next,
brief mention Of which was made un-
der our telegraphic head Sunday morn.
ing:
By the President Of the United StateS-A
Proclamation.
Washington, September 22d, 1921
Abraham Lincoln, President of the Uni
ted States of America, and Comman.
der-in-Chio: of the army and navy
thereof, do hereby proclaim and dc.
clare that hereafter, as Heretofore, the
van will be prosecuted for the object of
practically restoring the constitutions
al relation between tho United States
and the people in which States that
relation is, or may be, suspended OF
distuebed; that it is my purpbse, upon
tho next meeting of Congress, to again
recommend the adoption of a practical
measure rendering pecuniary aid to the
free acceptance or rejection Of all the
slave States, so-called, the people where.
o fmay notthen be in rebellion against
the United States, and which Statos.
may then have voluntarily adopted the
immediate or gradual adjustment of
slavery within their respective limits;
and that the efforts TO ~colonize persons
ofAfrican descent, with their consent,
upon the continent OF elsewhere, with
the previously obtained consent of tho
governments existing there, will be
continued; that on the first day Of Jan.
uary, in the year Of our Lord one thou.
sand eight hundred and sixty-three, all
persons held al slaves within any State
or any designated part Of State, the
people whereof shall then be in REBEL.
ion against the United States, shall b,
th~enceforward and toreuert free; and the
executive government Of the United
States, including the military and naval
authority thereof, recognize and main.
tain the freedom of such persons, and
will do act or acts to repress such per.
sons, or any ofthem, in any efforts they
may make for their actual freedom;
that the executive will, on tho first day
OF January aforesaid, by proclamation,
designate the States and parts of the
States, if any, in which the people
thereof respectively shall then be in re.
5ellion againt the United States; and
the fact that any State, or the people
thereof, shall on that day be in good
faith represented n the Congress ofthe
United States by members chosen
thereto at elections wherein a majority
of the qualified voters OF such State
shall have participated, shall, in the alb
sence of strong countervailing testimo-
ny, be deemed conclusive evidence that
such State and the people thereof have
not been in rebellion against tho Uni
ted States. u.r,..4..
And l do hereby %enjoin upon and or
der all persons engaged in the military
and naval service ofthe United States
to observe, obey and enforce within
their respective spheres Of service the
act and sections above recited.
And the executive will in duo time
recommend that all citizens of the Uni
ted States who shall have remained
loyal thereto throughout the rebellion
shall upon the restoration of tho con.
stitutional relation between the United
States and their respective States and
people, ifthe relation shall have been
suspended or disturbed) be compensa-
ted for all acts of the United States,
including the loss of slaves.
In witness whereof have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal Of the
United States to be affixed.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Done at the city Of Washington this
twenty second day of September, in
the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty.two, and OF
the i%ndependce ofthe United States the
eighty seventh. 90.
BY the President:
WILLIAM H. SEWARD,