The Washington papers publish the following proclamation from Lincoln:

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – A PROCLAMATION.

In pursuance of the sixth section of the act of Congress, entitled “An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, so [sic] seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes,” approved July 17, 1862, and which act and joint resolution explanatory thereof are herewith published, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby proclaim to and warn all persons within the contemplation of said sixth section to cease participating in, aiding, countenancing, or abetting the existing rebellion, or any rebellion, against the Government of the United States, and to return to their proper allegiance to the States, on pain of the forfeitures and seizures as within and by said sixth section provided.

In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington this the twenty-fifth day of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty two, and of the independence of the United States and [sic] eighty-seventh.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

By the President:

WM. H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.

– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 9, 1862, p. 2

SEE ALSO: Proclamation of the Act to Suppress Insurrection