The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-10-18
4 PRoCLAnATEON.
By the President OF lhe United
States.
WAsHMoroN, Sept. %, 1862.

states.
WAsHIEGToN, Sept %, 1862.
j, ABRAHAM Lincoln, President of the
United states Of America, and Comman-
der-ip 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
it is my purpose upon the next meeting
Of Congress to again 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
be in elellion against the United States
and which States may then have yelun-
tarily adopted, or thereafter may volun-
tarily adopt, an immediate or gradual
adjustment Of slavery within their re-
spective limits; and that the efforts to
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 That on
the first dayof january, IN the gear Of our
Lord, one thousand eight hundred and 8irty-
three, all persons held as SLAVES ,oitlin any
State, or within any designated part Of State,
the people ,0hereQf shall then be in rebellion
against the United States, shall be then, thence
to'70ara and toraey ftee and the ErecutiUe
Government Of the United States, iacl4oling
tie military and naval authority thereof will
recognize 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, 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 amaierity 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
"Be 40 enacted By he Senate and House Of
Representatives Of tie United Statss, 10 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
gitiyes from service or labor, who may
have escaped from any person to whom
such service on labor is claimed TO 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, ., Ind Be e tjgtler enacted, That
this act shall take effect from and after
itspassagc."
Also to the 9th and 10th sections Of an
act entitled can act TO suppress insur-
rection, 10 punish treason and rebellion