The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-11-01
4 PROCLAMATION,
ny the President OF the United
states.
September II, 1862

WASHINGTON, 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
it is my purpose upon the next meeting
oi Congress TO again recommend the
adoption Of q practical measure tender
ing pecuniary aid to the free acceptance
projection OF all the slave States, so
sailed, 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-
EARLY adopt, ain immediate or gradual
a5olishment Of slavery within their re-
spective limits: aud that the efforts to
co.onize 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
Ao first day. Of January i's tie gear Of our
Lard, one Housand eight hundred and si1ty-
three, all persons held as SLAVES '0itlin any
Site, or ,oitIin any designated part cfa State,
ID people ,olereQf shall then be IN rebellion
against the United States, shall JetIeR, thence
forward anil jortpey free, and tie ErecutiUe
Government Of the United States, including
tle miEiuyqod naval authority A,ereef ,oiH
recognise and maintain the freedom Of such
persons, and viii do no act or acts to re-
press such persons, or any Of them, in
Hny 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-
sonted 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
70, 1862, and which act is in the words
and figures following:
"BeU enacted By he Senate and House of
representatives Of the United iStatss, ia Con-
gfess 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 fu-
eitlyes from service or labor, who may
nave escaped from any person to whom
such service or labor is claimed TO be
due aud any officer who shall be found
guilty by a court martial OF violating
this article shall be dismissed from the
service
Sec .. md be IL f,utler enacted, Thai
this act shall take effect from and after
It's PASSAGE
Also 10 the Oh and 10th sections of an
act entitled "an act to suppress insur,
rectiou, 90 punish treason and rebellion