Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1861-08-20
A.r6TUER PROCLAN4TON tROH
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The following proclamation was issned by
the Yankee President on Friday last:
Ey tie President Of tie United States .,
america.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, on the 10Th Of April, 1861, the
President Of the United States, in view Of an
insurrec,ion against the laws, constitution
and government Of the United States, which
had broken out within the States Of South
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mssis-
sippi, Louisiana and Texas, and in pursuance
Of the provisions Of the act entitled IAN
act to provide for calling forth the militia to
execute the laws of the Union, suppress in
surrections and rcpel iIvaSions, and to repeal
the act now in force Tor that purpose" ap.
proved February %, 1876, did call forth the
militia to suppress said insurrection and to
cause the laws of the Union TO be duly exc:
cuted and the insurgents have failed to dis
perse by the time directed by the President;
and whereas such insurrecton has since
broken out, and yet e&isrS, within the States
Of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and
Arkansas and whereas the insurgents in all
tha said States claim to act under the autho.
ity thereof, and such claim is not disclaimed
or repudiated by the person exercising the
functions OF government in such State or States,
or in the part or parts thereof in which such
combinations exist, nor has such instruction
been suppressed by said States,
Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, Presi.
dent OF the United State?, in pursuance Of an
act Of Congress, approved July -, 1851, do
hereby declare that the inhabitants Of the said
States Of Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia,
North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louis
ana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi and Florida,
Except the inhabitants Of that part Of the
State OF Virginia lying west of the Allegheny
mountains, aud Of such other parts Of that State
and the other States hereinbefore named as
may maintain L 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 dis persion of said
nsurgenisl are in state ofinsurrection against
the United States and that all commercial in
tercourse between the same and the inhabi-
tants thereof, with the exceptions aforesaid
and the citizens of other States and other parts
of the United States is unlawful, and will re-
main unlawful until such insurrection shall
cease or has been suppressed; that all goods and
ehattlcs, wares and merchandise, coming from
any Of said States, with the exceptions afore
said, into other parts of The United States, with
ont the special license and permission Of the
President, through the Secretary Of the Trea-
sury, or proceeding to any OF said States, with
the exceptions aforesaid by land or water, to-
gether with the vessel or vehicle conveying the
IN frnr cnSH
States. with the said exceptions. will be for.
lcited to the United States; and that from and
after fifteen days from the issuing Of this pro.
clamation, all ships aud 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 hereby
rnjoin upon ell dist. let attorneys, marshals,
and officers Of the revenue and Of the military
and naval forces of the United States to be
Yigilant III The execution Of said act and in tbs
enforcement OF the penalties and forieturts
imposed or declared by it; leaving any party
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 Judgment, the special cir
cums,ances Of any case shall require such re.
mission.
In witness whereof have hcreunto set my
hand, and caused the seal Of the United States
| to be affixed.
Done at the city OF Washington this 10th
day Of August in the year Cl our Lord, 1861, ,
and of the independence of the United States
Of a the eighty.siIth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President;
WM. Ii. SEWARD, Secretary OF State.
THE LATEST FROM GEN. SIEGEL's COMMAND.
Sr. LOUIS, Aug. Il The correspondent G. the
St. Louis Democrat" writing from Rolla, t"r'
nshes the following items:
Gen. Siegel's command was passed at the
Gasconade river, fifty miles west of this place,
yesterday (Tuesday) evening, where he had
cncampcd for the night.
The stage route to Springfield has been
abandoned and the stock brought here.
The Postmaster of Springfield has arrived
with ell the mail matter of that office.
About twenty-five wagon loads Of fugitives
from Springfield have reached here, and others
are on their way.
Judge Mcbride is reported 10 be at Big Tun
mel. twenty miles from here, with titeer
hundred malcontents, but very little atten'lo!
is paid to him or his movements.
FROM GEN. BANKs's COLUMN.
HEADQUARTERS NEAR SANDY HOOK, Angus
1+:-Sincc reginental officers, stationed belo"
Harpcr's Ferry, have been restricted from IS
suing passes to cross the Potomac into Flrgl
mia, General Banks's headquarters have beer
besieged by crowds Of persons anxious to e
over on various pretexts but no passes art
issued now, except to those who come vel
endorsed as thorough-going Union men. This
Of course, causes great disappointment in Sc
cession circles, but will doubtless aid the Dnlor
cause
a party of civilians who visited Marylanc
Heights on Sunday, discovered, oy the ald o
glasSes, an encampment near Shepharasto"h
The number of tents indicated the presence o
o regiment, supposed to be secesslonists, ou
it is possible they were some OF our own iofce
Two young men, sons OF weli-EnoWn Sc
cessionist who resides on the Virginia SIDE
the Potomac, few miles above Harper's Fer
~, were brought into camp to-day by tb'
picket of Col. Biddle's regiment The father
whose arrest vas intended, managed to escape
After lengthy examination, General Bank!
ordered them to be retained under guard.
BRING N 20 MORE REPORTS.
The n. y. express" in an article on th
official reports Of the battle Of Bull Run, rt
marks:
1.-The more re hear OF the conduct Of SOM
of our officers and men at Bull Run-the NOR
We are inclined to let the curtain drop on tn
whole affair, and cry out with the Thane
Cawder, Bring in no more reports"
"With disclosures of this discreditable CHAR
acter crowdng upon us, we think the reade
will sympathise with the wish We haze al
ways expressed, that Bull Run should drol
as soon as possible into oblivion. The couu
try has heard enough it. "Brinng in no NOR
reports"
The Albany Evening journal ha7ln!
charged the 'contrabands" within the Unite'
States forts with communicating much Of tn
information obtained by the enemy, the Ne7