Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1813-11-22
A PROCLAMATION.

Militia of this State, has been order
ed from our frontiers for the defence
of a neighbouring State And,
whereas it further appear, TO the
extreme regret of the Capt. Gen.
that part of the militia of faid brig
ade have been placed ander the COM
mand, and at the difpofal, of an ofii.
Ger OF the u. States, out of the juris-
dietion or control of the Exer utive of
this itate, and have been actually
marched TO the defence of a filter
State, fully competent to all the pur-
pofes of felf defence, whereby an ex-
t.nlive section of our own frontier IS
lsft, in a meafure, unprotected, and
the peaceable good citizens thereof
are put in great jeopardy, and exPoi.
ed to the retaliatory incursion and
rayages of an exaspsrated enemy
And, whereas, difturbances, of very
serious nature, are believed TO exit,
in coniequepce of portion OF the
militia having been thus ordered out
of the State -
Therefore % to the end, that thele
grea, evils may BE- provided againtt,
and, as far as may be, prevented tor
the future:
BE II Kno1vn-- that fuch portion of
the Militia, of faid Third Brigade, in
iaid Third Divifion. as may BE now
doing duty, in the state OF New
York, or el(ewhere, beyond the lin.
Its Of this State, both Officers and
Men are hereby ordered and direct
ed, by the Capt General and Com
mander in Chief of the Militia of the
State of Vermont forthwith to return
TO the REFLECTIVE places Of their uiual
reGdence within the territorial limits
of faid Brig sade, and there to hold
themieives in conttant readineis to
act, in obedience to the Orders OF
Brigadier General Jacob DAVIS. who
is appointed by the Legislature OF his
State, to the command of said Brig
ade
And the faid Brigadicr General
DAVIS is hereby ordered and cirecr
ed forthwith to fee that the Militia Of
his iaid Brigade be completely armed
and equipped, as the Law directs, &
holden in conitp, rsadinefs TO march
on the fhortea notice, to the defence
Of the Frontiers and in cafe OF actu.
: al inyaiion, without further Orders,
10 march with bis faid Brigade, to
act either in CO operation with the
Troops Of the United States, or fep-
arately. as circumstances may require
in repelling the enemy from our ter
ritory, and in protecting the good
citizens Of this State from their raya-
ges or hottie incurGons.
And in cafe of an event, 10 feriouf
ly to be deprecated, ii is hoped and
expected, that every citizen, without
dialnction of party will Ry a, once to
the nearelt poit of danger, and that
the only iallying word will be
"OUR COUNTRY"
Feeling, as the Captain General
does, the weight of reiponibility
which reifs upon him, with regard
to the Conititutional duties of the
militia, and the facred rights of our
citizens to projection from this great
clais of community, 70 edentially ne
cenary IN all free countries; at a
moment too. when they are 10 inn
minenlly expofed to the dangers of
hottie incuriions and domeific diff
eulties, he cannot confcientioasly diff
charge the truit repofrd in him by the
voice of his fellow citizens and by the
Conititution OF this and the Uuited
States without an unequivocal decla-
ration, that, in his opinion, the mill
tarv itrength and the reloutces of
this State. mutt be referved for its
own defence and protection esrf!Eps.
y-excepting in cafes provided tor by
the Contribution of the United States
and then, under orders derived only
from the Commander in Chief.
Given mder my had az Montteier,
this 10th day gf November IN tie
year m our Lard Os 7bantaad
Eigbt Hund,ed md Thirteen. and
sf ibe Independenee gftbe Unifsd
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