The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-10-09


tie first daycf Jaauary, IN the gear Of om
Lord, one thousand eigh hundrod and sirty-
hiyes, all persons held as slaUos sOitEia ann
State, or i0itlin any designated pant ofa Sate,
tie people loaere9f shall hen be IA rebellion
against tie United States, shall be Hen, thence
Jo,7oard and torcusr fres and 1o Executive
Government Of die United States, iacll5ing
ne military and aa0al authority 6seraof, ,gill
recognize AID maiataia he 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 mako for their ac-
tual freedom; that the Executive will, on
the lirst 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-
sented in the Congress Of the United
States by members chosen thereto at
elections wherein amajority 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
13, 1862, and which act is in the words
and figures following:
"Bab enacted 5y6s Senate and House of
Representatives Of the United SiatsS an Con-
g1ess assembled, That hereafter the follow
ing shall be promulgated as an addition
al Article of War for the government of
tho Army of the United States, and shall
bo obeycd and observed az such
Article: All officers or persons in the
military or naval service Of the United
States, are prohibited from employing anv
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 10 be
due, and any officer who shall be found
guilty by court martial, of violating
this article shall be dismissed from the
service.
Sec. 2. -And la 10 further enacted. That
this act shall take effect from and after
its passage
Also to the 9th and 10th sections of an
act entitled can act 10 suppress insur-
rectiOn, TO punish treason and rebellion,
TO seize and coniiscatc property Of rebels,
and for other purposes, approved July
18th, 1862" and which sections arc in the
words and figures following;
SECTION 0. And he 10 f,tler 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 refugo within the limita 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
sorvilude 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 hindorcd of his liberty,
except for crime or some oilense 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 OF 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 cnjoin 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 rccitcd Aud the Exec
utiye win in due time recommend that
all citizens Of the United Statos 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, b compensated for al losses by acts
Of he Uate9 States, incbI9i8g NE lass IF
sl1rss.
In witness whereof have hereunto set
my hand and casued the seal Of tho Uni
ted States 60 be affixed,
Dono At the City Of Washington this
the twenty-sccond day Of September, In
Tho year Of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-two, and Of the In
dependence Of the United States the
eighty-seyenth.
[signed, ABRAHAMLTNCOLN
By the President,
WM. II SEWARD, Secretary of State,