ded or disturbed.

"That it is my purpose, upon the next meeting of Congress, to
again recommend the adoption of a practical measure tendering
pecuniary aid to the free acceptance or rejection of all Slave
States, so called, the people whereof may not then be in
rebellion against the United States, and which States may then
have voluntarily adopted, or thereafter may voluntarily adopt,
immediate or gradual abolishment of Slavery within their
respective limits; and that the effort to colonize persons of
African descent, with their consent, upon this continent or
elsewhere, with the previously obtained consent of the
governments existing there, will be continued.

"That, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as
slaves within any State, or designated part of the State, the
people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United
States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the
Executive Government of the United States, including the military
and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the
freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress
such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for
their actual 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 people thereof respectively shall then be in
rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State,
or the people thereof, shall on that day be in good faith
represented in the Congress of the United States, by members
chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified
voters of such State shall have participated, shall, in the
absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive
evidence that such State, and the people thereof, are not then in
rebellion against the United States.

"That attention is hereby called to an act of Congress entitled
'An Act to make an additional Article of War,' approved March
13th, 1862; and which act is in the words and figures following:

"'_Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled_, That
hereafter the following shal