The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-11-02
A PROCLAMATION.
By the President OF the united
states.
September II, 1862.
WASHINGTON, Sept. %, 1862.

WASHINGTON, Sept %, 1862,
7, Abraham Lincoln, President of the
United States of America, and Comman-
der-in- chief 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 pe0-
pie thereof in which States that relation
is OF may be suspended or disturbed; that
it is my purpose upon the next meeting
Of Congress to agAA recommend the
adoption Of practical measure tenders
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
and which States may then have yolun-
tarily adopted, or thereafter may yolun-
tarily 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 first dayef January, in the gear Of our
Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sirty-
three, all persons held as sJaOes ,0itlin any
State, or ,ottlsin any designated part Of a STATE,
He people ,0bereef shall then be IN rebellion
against the United States, shall be Hea, thence
forward and foreVey free, and de ErecutiUe
Government Of the United States, including
the military anil naval authority thereof mil
recognize and maintain the freeim 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-
scented in the Congress of the United
States by members chosen thereto al
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
13, 1862, and which act is in the words
and figures following.
"BeU enacted by H,e Senate and House al
Representatives Of he United Statss, ia Con-
gress 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: 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
manda for the purpose Of returning flu
gitives from service or labor, who may
have escaped from any person 70 whom
such service or labor is claimed 70 be
due and any officer who shall be found
guilty bV a court martial, Of VIOLATING
This article shall be dismissed from the
service.
Sec 2. Ind n q fltley enacted Tha
this act shall take effect from and aflel
is passage
Also TO the 9th and 10Th sections Of az
acl entitled Dan act % suppress insur
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