The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-10-16
A PROCLAMATION.
uy tbe President OF lhe United
states
september II, 1862
WAsnNeroy. Sept. q, 1862.

WAsH1NGToy, Sept p, 1862
l. Abraham Lincoln, President of the
United states Of America. and Comman-
dcr-in.cblef Of the Army and Navy
thereof do hereby proclaim and declare,
that hereafter as heretofore, the war will
be prosecuted lor the object Of practical
" restoring the constitutional relations
between .he United states and the peo-
pie thereof ia which States that relation
is or may be suspended or dis%rbed; that
tits my purpose upon the next meeting
Of Congress TO again recommend the
adoption Of a practical measure tender
ing pecuuiaTy aid to the frceacceptance
or rejection Of al the slave States, so
called, che people whereof may not then
be in rebellion against the United States
and which states may then have yolun-
tarily.adoptcd, or thereafter may volun-
tarily adopt, an immediate or gradual
abolisbmeut 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 first dcyJ January IN the yeoy Of o1o
Lord, one thousand eight hVadred and s'riy-
three, az persons held as s'avey ,oittia any
State, or ,ost'a any designated pat u a STATE,
the people iqlaeqf shall then be IL rebellion
against the United States, shall be Hea, Helcs-
forward and Jor,re, free, and the E,recutics
Government Of tie United states, i,cluding
the military anil noral authority HercG i5U
recognize and maintain tie fce}om o. acl
persons, and will do no act or acts to re-
press such persons, on 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-
sented 10 Jhe 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
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
ditiopal Article OF War, approved March
Is, 1862, and which act is in The words
and figures following:
"Be q ens,'e{ LyAe Senate and House II
Representatives Of he United Statss IN Con-
yyess assembled That hereafter the follow
ing shall be promulgated as an addition
al Article of War for the government Of
the Army Of the United States, and shall
be obeyed and observed as such
Article: An officers or persons in the
military on 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 may
have escaped from any person TO whom
such service or labor is claimed 20 be
due, and any officer who shall be found
guilty by a court martial, Of violating
this article shall be dismissed from the
service
See. 2. Ind Be 70 fgtiey enacted, That
this act shall take effect from and after
its passage"
Also TO The 9th and 10th sections Of an
act entitled an act to suppress insur-
rection, 10 punish treason and rebellion