Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-08-29
A. H. CONKEY, J.
VIM. s. BATES, Conn.
W. W. LELAND,
lodge Room, Pontotoc, Miss. Aug. 6, '6l
Important Proclamation from Presi.
dent Lincoln.


.. dent Lincoln.
Whereas, on the 18th day of April, 1861,
the President of the United States, in view
of an insurrection against the laws, Consti-
tuition and Government of the U. States,
which had broken out within the States of
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Flori-
da, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, and
iu pursuance of the provisions Of the act
entitled Gan act to provide for the calling
forth the militia to execute the laws of the
Union, suppress instructions aud repel in
vasions, and to repeal the act now in force
for that purpose" approved February 20,
1895, did call forth the militia to suppress
said insurrection and to 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 where
as, such insurrection has since broken out,
and yet exists, within the States of Virgin.
ia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkan-
sas and whereas, the insurgents in all the
said States claim to act under the authority
thereof, and such claim is not disclaimed
or repudiated by the persons exercising the
functions of Government in such State or
States, or in the part or parts thereof in
which combinations exist, nor has such in.
surrection been suppressed by said States ::
Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln,
President of the United States, in pursu.
ance of an act of Congress, approved July
1S, 1861, do hereby declare that the in
habitsnts of the said States of Georgia,
South Carolina, Virginia, North Carolina,
Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas,
Arkansas, Mississippi and Florida, (except
the inhabitants of that part of the State of
Virginia lying West of the Allegheny
Mountains, and of such other parts of that
State and the other States hereinbefore ma
med as may maintain loyal adhesion to
the Union and the Constitution, or may be,
from time to time, occupied and controlled
by forces of the United States engaged in
the dispersion of said insurgents,) are in a
state of insurrection against the U. States
and that all commercial intercourse between
the same and the inhabitants thereof, with
the exceptions aforesaid, and the citizens
of other States and other parts Of the Uni
ted States, is unlawful, and will remain
unlawful until such insurrection shall cease
or has been suppressed; that all goods and
chattles, wares and merchandise, coming
from any of said States, with the exceptions
aforesaid, into other parts of the United
States, without the oial license and per-
mission of the President, through the Sec-
retary of the Treasury, or proceeding to
any of said States, with the exceptions a.
foresaid, by land or water, together with
the vessel or vehicle conveying the same,
or conveying persons to or from said States,
with the said exceptions, will be forfeited
to the United States and that from and af-
ter fifteen days from the issuing of this
proclamation, all ships and vessels belong
ing in whole or in part to any citizen or in
habitant 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 enjoin upon
all district attorneys, marshals and officers
of the revenue and of the military and ma
val forces of the United States, to be vig'-
liant in the execution of said act and in the
enforcement of the penalties and forfeitures
imposed or declared by it leaving any par
ty who may feel himself aggrieved thereby
to his application to the Secretary Of the
Treasury for the remission of any penalty
or forfeiture, which the said Secretary is
authorized by law to grant, if, in his judg'
ment, the special circumstances of any case
shall require such remission.