The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-08-23

Washington, August 16.
BY the Pressdent efthe United States of AMERICA:
WHEREAS, On the 18th day of April the
President of the United States, in view of
an instruction against the laws, constitu-
ton and government of the United States
which had broken out within the states of
south carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida,
Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, and in
pursuance OF the provisions of an act en-
titled an act to provide for calling forth the
militia to execute the laws of the Union,
suppress lnsurrection, and repel invasion,
and to repeal the act now in force for that
purpose, approved February %, 1905, did
call forth the militia to suppress said insur-
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 Instruction has since
broken out and yet exists in the states of
Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and
Arkansas, and 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 such state or states, or in part or parts
thereof in which combinations exists. Nor
has such instructions been suppressed by
such states.
Now, therefore, 1, Abraham Lincoln,
President of the United States, in pursuance
of an act of Congress, July 9Th, 1861, do
hereby declare that the inhabitants of the
said States of Georgia, South Carolina, Vir-
ginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama,
Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi and
Florida, except inhabitants of part of
the State of Virginia lying west of the
Allegheny mountains, and of such other
states herein before named, as may maintain
a loyal adhesion to the Union and the Con-
stitutiOn or may be from time to time &C.
cupied and controlled by the forces engaged
in the dispersion of said insurgents, are in
state OF instruction against the United
States, and that commercial intercourse be-
tween the same and the inhabitants thereof
with the exceptions aforesaid and the citi-
zens OF other States and other parts of the
United States is unlawful, and will remain
unlawful 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 proceeding
to any of the said States with The excep.
tions aforesaid, by land or water, herewith
the vessel or vehicle conveying the same, or
conveying persons to and from said States,
with said exceptions, will be forfeited to the
United States and from and after the ff-
teen days from the issuing of this proclama-
ton all ships and vessels belonging in 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 | heraby enioin on all district
attorneys, marshals, and officers of the reve-
nue., military and naval forces of the United
States to be vigilant in the execution of
said act and in the enforcement of the pen.
alties and torietures imposed or declared by
it, leaving any party who may think himself
aggrleved 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 judgment, the special circumstances
OF any case shall require such remission.
In witness whereof l have set my hand
and caused the seal of the United States to
be affixed. Done in the city of Washing
ton, this 10th day of August, A. D. 1861,
of the independence of the United States
the eighty sixth. -
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
BY the President,
VIM. H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.