By the President of the United States: A proclamation
Subtitle: I, Abraham Lincoln ... do hereby proclaim and declare, that ... the war will be prosecuted for the object of practically restoring the constitutional relations between the United States and the people thereof, in which States that relation is or may be suspended or disturbed; that it is my purpose ... to again recommend the adoption of a practical measure, tendering pecuniary aid to the free acceptance or rejection of all the slave states ... that on the first day of January ... all persons held as slaves ... shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free ...
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1862
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Subjects: Slaves; Emancipation; History
Notes: Dated September 22, 1862.

Included in text are section 2 of the March 1862 "act to make an additional article of war" and sections 9 & 10 of the Confiscation Act of July 17, 1862.