Gross No. 634. any disposition on the part of Southern planters to part with their cotton, and britannien, I have accordingly to instruct you to remonstrate with Mr. Seward against it. 1. Sept. ¶ I am, &c. 1862. To Mr. Stuart, Washington. Russell. No. 635. No. 635. 22. August GROSSBRITANNIEN. Geschäftsträger in Washington an d. kön. Min. d. Die Widerrufung der Ordre des Gen. Sherman betr. My Lord, Washington, August 22, (received September 4) 1862. I have the honour to inclose an extract from the,,National britannien, Intelligencer" of the 20th instant, purporting to contain an order issued by 1862. Major-General Grant, rescinding the order of General Sherman at Memphis, which was transmitted to your Lordship in my despatch of the 8th instant, and annulling all restrictions upon the sale of cotton, and upon the payment thereof in specie. General Grant states that he has thus acted in pursuance of orders received from Washington. I have, &c. To Earl Russell, London. W. Stuart. No. 636. Vereinigte Anlage. Extract from the,,National Intelligencer" of August 20, 1862. Cotton Orders Rescinded. The order of General Sherman, at Memphis, prohibiting the purchase of cotton with gold or silver, has been rescinded. Major-General Grant on the 11th instant issued the annexed General Order: ,,In pursuance of orders from head-quarters of the army at Washington, all restrictions on the sale of cotton and the prohibition of the payment of gold therefore are hereby annulled. Every facility possible will be afforded for getting cotton to market. ¶ By order of Major-General U. S. Grant, Jno. A. Rawlins, Assistant Adjutant-General." General Sherman accordingly caused a notice to be published in the Memphis papers to the same effect. The cotton-trade is once more open. Department of State, Washington, September 11, 1862. Sir, in a letter to this Department of the 29th ultimo, General Shepley, Staaten, the Military Governor of Louisiana, represents that he is doing everything in his 1862. power towards increasing the exports of cotton from New Orleans. He adds 11. Sept. that there are now no restrictions of any kind on the part of the military or civil authorities of the United States which impede the receipts of cotton at or its shipment from that port. The obstacles interposed are entirely those of the insurgents, and these he would use all proper and legal means to overcome. ¶ I have, &c. No. 636. Vereinigte Staaten, 11. Sept. 1862. To Mr. Stuart, &c. No. 637. William H. Seward. VEREINIGTE STAATEN von AMERIKA. - Proclamation des Präsidenten Lincoln, die Emancipation der Sclaven in den abtrünnigen Staaten betr. By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation. I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, and Commander-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 practically restoring the constitutional relation between the United States and each of the States, and the people 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 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 1st day of January, in the year of our Lord 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and for ever 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 of them, any efforts in any they may make for their actual freedom. That the Executive will, on the 1st 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 No. 637. Vereinigte Staaten, 22. Sept. 1862. No. 637. Article of War," approved March 13, 1862, and which Act is in the words and Vereinigte Staaten, figures following: 22. Sept. 1862. ,,Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that hereafter the following shall be promulgated as an additional 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 commands for the purpose of returning fugitives from service or labour who may have escaped from any persons to whom such service or labour is claimed to be due; and any officer who shall be found guilty by a courtmartial of violating this Article shall be dismissed from the service. ,,Section 2. And be it further enacted, that this Act shall take effect from and after its passage." Also, to the ninth and tenth sections of an Act entitled,,An Act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: ,,Section 9. And be it further enacted, that all slaves of persons who shall hereafter be engaged in rebellion against the Government of the United States, or who shall in any way give aid or comfort thereto, escaping from such persons and taking refuge within the lines of the army; and all slaves captured from such persons, or deserted by them and coming under the control of the Government of the United States; and all slaves of such persons found on or being within any place occupied by rebel forces and afterwards occupied by the forces of the United States shall be deemed captives of war, and shall be for ever free of their servitude, and not again held as slaves. ,,Section 10. And be it further enacted, that no slave escaping into any State, territory, or the District of Columbia, from any other State, shall be delivered up, or in any way impeded or hindered of his liberty, except for crime, or some offence against the laws, unless the person claiming said fugitive shall first make oath that the person to whom the labour or service of such fugitive is alleged to be due is his lawful owner, and has not borne arms against the United States in the present rebellion, nor in any way given aid and comfort thereto; and no person engaged in the military or naval service of the United States shall, under any pretence whatever, assume to decide on the validity of the claim of any person to the service or labour of any other person, or surrender up any such person to the claimant, on pain of being dismissed from the service." And I do hereby enjoin upon and order all persons engaged in the military and naval service of the United States to observe, obey, and enforce, within their respective spheres of service, the Act and Sections above recited. ¶And the Executive will in due time recommend that all citizens of the United States who shall have remained loyal thereto throughout the rebellion shall (upon the restoration of the constitutional relation between the United States and their respective States and people, if that relation shall have been suspended or dis 1862. turbed) be compensated for all losses by acts of the United States, including the No. 637. Vereinigte loss of slaves. ¶ In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused Staaten, 22. Sept. the seal of the United States to be affixed. ¶ Done at the City of Washington, this 22nd day of September, in the year of our Lord 1862, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-seventh. By the President: Abraham Lincoln. William H. Seward, Secretary of State. No. 638. VEREINIGTE STAATEN von AMERIKA. — Proclamation des Präsidenten Lincoln, die zeitweilige Aufhebung der Habeas-Corpus- Acte betr. By the President of the United States. A Proclamation. Whereas it has become necessary to call into service not only Volunteers but also portions of the Militia of the States by draft, in order to suppress the insurrection existing in the United States, and disloyal persons are not adequately restrained by the ordinary processes of law from hindering this measure and from giving aid and comfort in various ways to the insurrection: Now, therefore, be it ordered 1. That during the existing insurrection, and as a necessary measure for suppressing the same, all rebels and insurgents, their aiders and abettors, within the United States, and all persons discouraging volunteer enlistments, resisting militia drafts, or guilty of any disloyal practice, affording aid and comfort to the rebels against the authority of the United States, shall be subject to martial law, and liable to trial and punishment by courts martial or military commission. 2. That the writ of habeas corpus is suspended in respect to all persons. arrested, or who are now, or hereafter during the rebellion shall be, imprisoned in any fort, camp, arsenal, military prison, or other place of confinement by any military authority, or by the sentence of any court-martial or military commission. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. ¶ Done at the city of Washington, this twenty-fourth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and of the independence of the United States the eightyseventh. Abraham Lincoln. William H. Seward, Secretary of State. No. 638. Vereinigte Staaten, 24. Sept. 1862. GROSSBRITANNIEN. No. 639. Min. d. Ausw. an d. königl. Gesandten in WashingDie Untersuchung englischer Schiffe durch Unionsfahrzeuge betreffend. Foreign Office, November 28, 1862. No. 639. (Extract.) Although the matter to which I now refer is not of recent britannien, date, I think it as well that a formal record should exist of the language held 1862. by Viscount Palmerston to Mr. Adams, in a conversation which took place in 28. Nov. the early part of the present year, when the United States' steamer,,Tuscarora" and the Confederate steamer,,Nashville" were in British waters. ¶ Lord Palmerston stated to Mr. Adams on the occasion in question, that Her Majesty's Government could not permit any interference with any vessel, British or foreign, within British waters; that with regard to vessels met with at sea, Her Majesty's Government did not mean to dispute the belligerent rights of the United States' ships of war to search them, but that the exercise of that right, and of the right of detention in certain conditions, must in each case be dealt with according to the circumstances of the case; and that it was not necessary for him to discuss such matters then, because they were not in point: but that it would not do for the United States' ships of war to harass British commerce on the high seas, under pretence of preventing the Confederates from receiving things that are contraband of war. I took an opportunity of mentioning to Mr. Adams the account which Lord Palmerston had given me of the language which he had thus held, and Mr. Adams agreed in its accuracy. &c. To Lord Lyons, Washington. Russell. No. 640. No. 640. 17. Nov. 1862. GROSSBRITANNIEN. -- Gesandter in Washington an d. kön. Min. d. Ausw. — Den Ausfall der Wahlen und die fremde Intervention betr. Washington, November 17 (received November 30), 1862. (Extract.) In his despatches of the 17th and of the 24th ultimo, and britannien, of the 7th instant, Mr. Stuart reported to your Lordship the results of the elections for Members of Congress and State Officers, which have recently taken place in several of the most important States of the Union. Without repeating the details, it will be sufficient for me to observe that the success of the Democratic or (as it now styles itself) the Conservative Party has been so great as to manifest a change in public feeling, among the most rapid and the most complete that has ever been witnessed, even in this country. On my arrival at New York on the 8th instant I found the Conservative leaders exulting in the crowning success achieved by the party in that State. They appeared to rejoice, above all, in the conviction that personal liberty and freedom of speech had been secured for the principal State of the Union.. They believed that the Govern |