The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-10-25
a PROCLAMATION
my the President Of The United
states.
September II, 1862.
WAsnINoToy, Sept. q, 1862.

WAsHEeToS, Sept p, 1862.
/, Abraham Lincoln, President of the
United States Of America, and Comman-
der-in-chi 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
or rejection OF all the slave States, so
called, the people whereof may not then
oe in rebellion against the United States
aud which States may then have volun-
tarily adopted, or thereafter may volun-
5agily 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. That on
the yfrst dayef January, IN tie year Of orr
Lord, me ao0sana eight hundred and sirty-
three, aU persons heM as SLAVES ,0itlin any
Sate, orv,dlia any designated part Of State,
tho people 0leyeQf shall then be IN rebellion
against the United States, shall be then, thence
torOara aad totuer free, and tie Executive
Government Of the United States, including
ne uHhta,yaa1 naval authority thereof UU
recognize and maintain the 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, 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-
scented in the Congress Of the United
States by members chosen thereto at
elections wherein amajerity 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
ditiOnal Article of War, approved March
Is, 1852, aud which act is in the words
and figures following
"Bs 10 enacted Jythe Senate and House Of
Representatives Of The United iStatss, IN Con-
gress assembled, That hereafter the follow
ing shall be promulgated as an addition
al Article oil War for the 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 NAV
have escaped from any person to whom
such service or labor is claimed 10 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. Ind be IL further eaaetea, That
this act shall take effect from and after
its passage
Also TO the oh and 10th sections Of an
act entitled San act 10 suppress insur-
pction, TO punish treason and rebellion