The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-08-24
Proclamation Of the President.

| By TIE president OF the Unlted States:
| WHEREAS. On the 18th day of April, the
! President of the United States, in view OF
an instruction against the Laws, CoEstitu-
ton and Government of the United States,
which had broken out within the States of
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Flori-
da, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, and
| in pursuance of the provisions of an act
entitled An Act to provide for calling forth
the militia to execute the laws of the I'm
ion, suppress Instruction and repel inva-
sion and to repeal the act now in force for
that purpose, approved February 28th,
1875, did call forth the militia to suppress
said insurreetion and cause the laws of the
Union to be duly executed, the insurgents
have failed to dispense, by the time direct
ed by the President; and, Whereas, Such
instruction has since broken out and yet
exists in the States of Virginia, North Car
DINA, Tennessee and Arkansas Whereas,
the insurgents in all the said States claim
TO act under authority thereof, and such
claim is not disclaimed or repudiated by the
persons exercising the functions of the
Government in each State or States, or in
part or parts thereof. in which combina-
tons exist. nor has such instruction been
suppressed by such States: now, therefore,
- huidudLl' AlHCOIuS 1 IoSluCut VI tue
United States, in pursuance of an act of
declare that the inhabitants of the said
States of Georgia, South Carolina, North
Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas
and Florida, except the inhabitants of
part of the State of Virginia, lying west of
the Allegheny Mountains, and Of such other
parts of that State and other States herein |
before named, as may maintain loyal adj
hesion to the Union and the Constitution,
or may be from time to time occupied and
controlled by the forces engaged in the dis |
persion of said insurgents. are in state of
Instruction against the United States; and
that commercial 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 unlaw |
full until such instructions shall cease or
shall have been suppressed: That all goods /
and chattels, wares and merchandise, COM
ing from any of the said States, with the /
exceptions aforesaid, into other parts of the |
United States without the special license |
and permission of the President through |
the Secretary of the Treasury, or proceed |
ing to any of the said States, with the ex
ceptions aforesaid, by land or water, here
with the vessels or vehicle conveying the
same or conveying persons to and from said |
States with said exceptions will be forfeited
to the United States from and after Is days
from the issuing of this proclamation. All
ships and vessels belonging in whole or in
part to any citizen or inhabitaht of any of
these States, with said exceptions, found at
sea or in any port of the United States, viii |
be forfeited to the Government. And I
hereby enjoin on all District Attorneys,
Marshals, and officers of the revenue, mill
tary and naval forces of the United States,
to be vigilant in the execution of said act
and to be strict in the enforcement of the
penalties and forfetures imposed or declar-
ed by it, leaving any party who may think
himself aggrieved thereby to his application
to the Secretary of the Treasury for the re-
mission of any penalty or forfeiture, which |
the. said Secretary is, authorized by law to
grant, if, in his judgment. the special cir
cumstances of any case shall require such |
remission. IVA Hs
In witness whereof have set my hand |
and caused therseal of the United States to
be affixed. q e+ /
Done in the City of Washington this
18th day of August, A. D. 1861, of the |
Independence of the United States, the 86th. |
Signed, ABRAHAM LINCOLN.