The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-12-05
A PROCLAMATION,
By the President of The United
States,
WASHINGTON, Sept. %, 1862.


states
WAsHINGToN, Sept %, 1862.
l, Abraham Lincoln, President of the
United States of America, and Comman-
der-in- n-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 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-
tariIy adopted, or thereafter may volun-
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
tie first day Of January IN the gear Of orr
Lord, one thousand eight hundred and Si1ty-
three, all persons held as SlaUeS ,0itEjn any
State, or '0itbin any designated part Of a State,
the people whereof shall H,ea be in rebellion
against the United States, shall be then, thence
forward and torever free, and tie Eaecutive
GoUe1nmem of the United States, Including
the military and naUaS authority Hereof wW
recognize and maintain tie 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 a amajerity of the quail
fed voters of such States shall have par
ticipated shall, in the absence Of streng
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 ad-
ditional Article of War, approved March
} 10, 1862, and which act is in the words
and figures following:
"Beh enacted By The Senate and House o.
} Representatives Of the United Statss, IN Con-
! qress 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 yed and observed as such:
Article: All officers or persons in the
B 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 fu-
gitiyes from service or labor, who may
; have escaped from any person to whom
such service or 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. 2. And be IL further enacted, That
this act shall take effect from and after
4 its passage
Also to the 9th and 10th sections Of an
act entitled an act to suppress insur-
rection, TO punish treason and rebellion
to seize and confscate property Of rebels
and for other purposes, approved July
18th, 1862" and which sections are in the
words and figures following:
0 SECTION 9. And be IL further enacted
. That all the slaves of persons who shal
hereafter be engaged in rebellion against
}, the Government Of the United States, OF
who shall in any way give aid or COM
fort thereto, escaping from such persons
% and taking refuge within the limits O
% the army, and all slaves captured from
such persons, or deserted by them anO
coming under the control of the Govern
ment of the United States, and all slaves