Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-08-17
Proclamation BY the President.

4 WASHINGTON, Aug. l6.-NHERSAS, on
the 10th day of April, the President of the
United States, in view of an instruction
against the laws, Constitution and Govern
ment OF the United States, which had
broken out within the States of South
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida Mis-
sissippi. Louisiana and Texas, and III pur
suance of the provisions of the act entitled,
s'an act to provide for calling forth the
militia to execute the laws of the Union,
suppress instructions and rcpel iuvusouS,
and to repeal the act now in force for that
purpose, approved February 2Sth, 1915"
did cali forth the military to suppress said
insurrpction and cause the laws of the
Union to be duly executed aud the insur
gents have failed to be dispersed by the
President; and. whereas, such instruction
has since broken and yet exists within the
States of Virginia, North Carolina, Ten
nessee, and Arkansas.
And whereas, the insurgents in all the
said States claim to net under authority
thereof, and such claim is not disclaimed
or repudiated by the persons exercising the
functions OF government i'll such State or
States, or in the part or parts thereof IN
which such combinations exist, nor has
such iusprrectiOn been suppressed by said
States. Now, therefore, |, Abraham Lin-
coin, President OF the United States, in
pursuance of an act OF Congress, approved
July 18th, 1861, do hereby declare that
the inhabitants of the said States of Geor-
gia, South Carolina, Virginia, North Caro-
Ina. Tennessee. Alabama, Louisiana, Tex
as, Arkansas. Mississippi and Florida, ex-
cept the inhabitants otthat part of the State
of Virginia lying west OF the Alleghe-
ny Mountains, and also of such other
parts Of that State and the other herein
before named, us may muiut;Iin II loyal adj
heson 10 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 insur-
gents, are ina state Of Instruction against
thesU United States, and that all commercial
intercourse between the same and the in
habtantS thereof with the exception afore-
said AID the citizens of other States and
other parts OF the United States in unlaw-
fu and will remain unlawful until such
instruction shall cease or has been sup
pressed; that all goods and chattles, wares
aud merchandise coming from any of said
States, with the exceptions asoresaid, into
orcr 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 said
States with the exceptions aforesaid, byland
or water, together with the vessel or vehicle
conveying the same or conveying persons
to or from said States, with said exceptions,
will be forfeited to the United States and
that from and after fifteen days from the
issuing of tins proclamation, all ships and
vessels belonging in whole or in part to
any citizen or inhubtunt of any of the said
States, with said exceptions, found at sea
or in any port of the United States, will be
forfeited to the United States; and here
by enjoin upon all District Attorneys, Mar
shals, and officers of the revenue and of
the military and naval forces of the United
States, to be vigiIunt in the execution of
said act and in the enforcement of the pen
aItcs imposed or declared by it, leaving
any party who may think himself ag
grieved thereby, to his application to the
Secretary of the Treasury for the rcmis-
sion of any penalty, which the said Secre-
tary is authorized by law to grant, if, in
his Judgment. TIE special circumstances OF
any case shall require smch remission.
Witness whereof have hcreuntO set my
hand and caused the seal Of the United
States to be affixed; done in the city of
Washington, this 18th day of August, in
the year of our Lord 1861. and of the indie
pcndcnce of the United States of America
the seth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
BY WIN. II. SEWARD, Secretary ofState