New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-06
Fremonf's Atrocious Proclamation.
The following is the proclamation in full of Gen.
Eremout. preYionslY announced by telegraph:

The following is the proclamation in full of Gen.
Fremont, previously announced by telegraph:
HEADQUARTERS WEsrERs DEPARrNEsT,l d,
st. LOUIS, Mo, August 20 1851.
Circumstances, in my judgment of sufficient ur-
gency, render it necessary that the Commanding
General of this department should assume the ad-
miGistratiye powers of the State.
Its disorganZea condition, the helplessness OF the
civil authority and the total insecurity OF life, and
the devastation of property by the hands of mur-
derers and marauders, who infect very nearly
every county in the State, and avail themselves OF
the public nsfortunes and the vicinity of hostile
force to gratfy private and neigAborhood ven
geance, and who find an enemy wherever they find
plunder, finally demanded the severest measures to
repress the daily increasing crimes and outrages
which are driving off the Inhabitants and running
the State.
In this condition the public safety and the sue
cess of our arms require unity of pun pose without
let or hindrance to the prompt administration OF
affairs.
In order, therefore, to suppress disorders, to
maintain, as far practicable, the public peace,
and to give security and protection to the persons
and property of loyal citizens, do hereby extend
and declare established martial law throughout
the entire State of Missouri and the lines OF the
army of occupation in this State are for the pres
| ent declared to extend from Leavenworth, by way
| of the posts of Jefferson City, Rolla and lronton,
to Cape Girardeau on the Mississippi river. All
| persons who shall be taken with arms in their
hands within these lines, shall be tried by court
martial, and, iffound guilty, will be shot,
|
| in the State OF Missouri who shall be directly
| proven to have taken active part with their en-
emies in the field IS declared cOnfscated to public
use, and slaves, if any they have, are hereby de
clared freemen. All persons who shall be proven
to have destroyed, after the publication of th
| order, railroad tracks, bridges, or telegraphs
! shall suffer the extreme penalties of this law.
All persons engaged in reasonable correspond
ence, in giving or procuring aid to the enemies o
the United States, in fermentirg tumults, in dis
turbing the public tranquility. by creating and cir
cuatng false reports or incendiary documents, ar
in their own interest warned that they are expos
ing themselves to sudden and severe punishment
All persons who have been led away from thei
allegiance required to return forthwith to hei
homes.
l Any such absent without sufficient cause, will b
held to be presumptive evidence against them. Tl
object of this declaration is to place in the hano
of the military authorities the power to give effet
to existing laws, and to supply such Deficiencies 6
the conditions of war demand, but it is not inten
ed to suspend the ordinary tribunals of the coul
! try, where the law will be administered by tt
u civil officers in the usual manner, and in their Gu
l. tomary authority, while the same can be peaceab
j. | exercised.
# The Commanding General will labor vgiant
for the public welfare and in his efforts for the
safety hopes to obtain not only the acquiescenc
n but the active support of the people of the counr
: JOHN c. Fremont,