The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-10-22
A PasOCLAnIAIION.
mv the President OF the United
States,
WAsHMoroy, Sept q, 1862.

WAsHNGToy, Sept p, 1862.
Z, 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
~ restoring the constitutional relations
between the United States and the peo-
pie thereof in which States that relation
is or may he 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
Br 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 yelun-
tarily adopted, or thereafter may yOlun
sariiy adopt, an immediate or gradual
adjustment of slavery within their re-
aPeotive 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
. ne first dayof January III the yeay Of orr
Lord, enc thousand eight h,oadred and si1ty-
hrss III persons held as slaUes wiHin any
S,ate, b, riiljn any designated pant Of STATE,
tie PEI pc wRereof shall then be IN rebellion
sgah2 De United States, stqH be Hen, thence
Joroag3 and }orUsr free, and ae Executive
GoUeeimaA Of ne United States, including
~ nIlqyydad naval authority Here!f will
roo8g7. .s AMI maintain he freedom Of such
nerS1ns, and viii 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
Che frst day of January aforesaid, by
proclamation, designate the States, and
Rsrts of States, if any, in which the peo-
pie thereof respectively, shall then be in
rebellion against the United States; the
Gact 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 at
elections wherein amajerity Of the quail
fied voters of such States shall have par
ticipated, shall, in the absence of strong
ooToboratiye 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 ad-
ditional Article Of War, approved March
rs, 1862, aud which act is in the words
and figures following
BE Il enacted BIZ the Senate and House Of
Representatives Of the United Stalss,. IN Con-
yrcss assembled, That hereafter the follow
sag shall be promulgated as an addition
al Article OF War for the government Of
"a Army of the United States, and shall
he Obeyed and observed as such.
Article: All officers or persons in the
r1alitary or naval service Of the United
States, are prohibited from employing any
of the forces under their respective com
nands for the purpose of returning flu
.g5dyes from service or labor, who may
have escaped from any person to whom
,such service OF labor is claimed 10 be
dae, and any officer who shall be found
guilty by a court martial, Of violating
this article shall be dismissed from the
service
Sec. 2. and D. 70 further eaac.el, That
this act shall take effect from and after
ita passage"