Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1861-08-29
A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas, On the 18th day of April, the
President Of the United States in view Of an
insurrection against the Laws, Constitution,
and government of the United States, which
had broken out within the states OF South
Carolina Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mis-
sissippi, Louisiana, and Texas, and in pur-
suance of the provisions of the act entitled
i" An Act to provide for calling forth the
militia to execute the laws OF the Union,
suppress instructions and repel invasions,
and to repeal The act now in force for that
purpose" approved February 28th I795, did
call forth the militia to suppress said iusur-.
rection and cause the laws of the Union to
be duly executed, and the insurgents have
failed to disperse by the time directed by the
President, and
Whereas, Such insurrection has since bro>
ken out, and yet exists within the states of
Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, ahd Ar
kansas; and whereas the insurgents in all
the sa ID states claim 10 act ui.der authority
thereof, and such claim is not d:sclalmed or
repudiated by the person exercising the fune
tions of government ID such state or states,
or in the part OF parts thereof, ln which CON-
binations exist, nor has such insurrection
been suppressed by said states
Now, therefore, |, Abraham Lincoln, Pres
ident of the United States, in pursuance of
aa act of Congress approved July Ii, 1861,
do hereby declare that that the Inhabitants
of the said states of Georgia, South Carroll.
pa, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, AIS
ALBANIA, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Missis-
sippi, and Florida. Except the nhabitanis
of that part Of Virginia lying west Of Alle-
gbany mountains, and Of such other parts Of
the state. and the other states herein before
named, as may maintain loyal adhesion to
the Union and the Constitution, or may be
from time to time occupied and controlled bv
the forces engaged in the dispersion of said
insurgents,) are in state of instruction a.
gainst the United States, and that all com
mercial intercourse between the same and
the inhabitants thereof, with the exceptions
aforesaid and the citizens of other states and
other parts of the United States, is unlawful
and will remain unlawful until such insur-
rection shall cease or has been suppressed,
that all goods and ehattels, wares and mer-
chandize coming from any OF said states,
with the exceptions aforesaid, into ether
parts of the United States, without the spe-
cial license and permission OF the President,
through the Secretary of the Treasury, or
proceeding to any of sald states, with the
exceptions aforesaid, by land or water to
gether with the vessel or vehicle conveying
persons to or from said states with said ex,
ceptions, will be forfeited to the United
States, and that from and after fifteen days,
from the issuing OF this procllm alton, all
ships ana vessels belonging to the whole or
in part to any citizen or inhabitant of any of
said states, with said exceptions, found at
sea or in any port of the United States, will
be forfeited to the United States; and
hereby enioin upon all district attornies
marshals, and officers of the revenue and of
the military and naval forces Of the United
States to be vigi,ant in the execution of SAID
act and in the enforcement of the penalties
and forfeitures imposed or declared by it,
leaving any party who may think himself
aggrieved thereby to make aprlication to the
Secretary of the Treasury for the remission
of any penalty of forfeiture which the said
secretary is authorized by law to grant, if,
in his judgement, the special circumstances
OF any case shall require such remission.
In witness whereof I have bereunto set
my hand and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed.
Done in the city of Washington this 18th
day of a agust, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and
of the independence of the United States the
eighty-sixth.
By the President.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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