The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-10-28
September IL, 1862.
A PROCLAMATION.
tFy the President oil tho united
States.


WAsHNGToY, Sept ~, 1862
!, 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 peo-
pie thereof in which States that relation
is or may be suspended or disturbed; that
il 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
and which States may then have volun-
tarily adopted, or thereafter may volun-
,arily adopt, an immediate or gradual
adjustment Of slavery within their re-
COLOMBO 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. z Int on
Tie first day. January IN the year Of orr
lard, one thousand eight hundred and sirty-
Jree, all persons held as SLAVES wiHin any
.S,ate or within any designated part Of State,
He people ,0Lereqf shall then be iR rebellion
against the United States, shall be Hea, thence
.J0r0ord and Jor0er free, and The ErecutiUe
Government Of he United Suites, including
The military and aapal atlorjty Ae,eoE Mill
recognise and maintain he freedom Of such
persons, end 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-
sented in the Congress Of the United
States by members chosen thereto at
elections wherein amajority of the quali-
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 10 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;
"Bea enacted By De Senate and House Of
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
mands for the purpose Of returning flu
gitivos 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 a court martial, Of violating
this article shall be dismissed from the
service.
Sec, 2. IND De q further enacted, That
this act shall take effect from and after
tspassage.'
Also to the 9th and 10Th sections Of an
act entitled can act TO suppress insur-
rection, 20 punish treason and rebellion