The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-11-04

reoQgnize 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, il 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 hy members chosen thereto at
elections wherein amsjority Of the quali-
fed voters Of such States shall have par
ticipated, shall, in the absence Of strong
corroboratige testimony, be deemed con-
elusive evidence that such State and the
people thereof have not been il rebellion
against the United States.
Attention is hereby called to an act of
Congress, entitled an act 70 make an adj
ditional Article of War, approved March
IS, 1862, and which act is in the words
and figures following:
"Beb enacted By he Senate and House Of
Representatives Of he United Stqtss, ia Can
MESS assembled, That hereafter the Follow
ing shall be promulgated as an addition
al Article Of War for the government of
TIE 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 fu-
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 il further enacted, That
this act shall take effect from and after
IFS passage
Also to the 9th and 10th sections of an
act entitled an act TO suppress insur-
rection, to punish treason and rebellion,
to seize and confscate property of rebels,
aud for other purposes, approved July
18th, 1862" and which sections are in the
words and figures following:
SECTION 8. Ind be 10 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-
towards 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 d further enacted, Thatno
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 oifense 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 ] 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 reoited. 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
mrbed, BE- compensated for all losses By acts
of ae United States, including Ae loss Of
sldpes,
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-sevenih.
/ [signed,l ABRAHAM LINCOLN.