Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-09-12
Fremont's Atrocious Proclamati Nils
 souri in State of Martial Law.

The following is the proclamation in full of Gen. Fremont, announced last week by tele graph:
 HEADQUARTERS WESTERN DEPARTMENT, ST. LOUIS, Mo, August 30, 1861. ]
 Circumstances, in my judgment, of sufficient urgency render it necessary that the command ing general of this department should assume the administrative powers oFthe State. It's disorganized condition, the helplessness of the civil authority, and the total insecurity of life, and the devastation of fproperty by bands
 of murderers and marauders who infect very
 nearly every county in the State, and avail themselves of the public misfortunes and the vicinity of hostile force to gratlty private and ueighborhood vengeance, and who find an enemy wherever they find plunder, finally de-
 rnanded 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 success of our arms require unity ot purpose without let or hndrance to the prompt admins tration ot affairs
 In order. therefore, to suppress disorders, to l maintain, as far as practicable, the public
 peace, and to give security and protection to the persons and property of loyal citizens, l do hereby extend and declare established mar tia law throughout the entire State of Mis- l gouri. and the lines of the army of occupation in this State are for the present declared to
 extend from Leavenworth, by way of the posts l of Jefferson City, Rola and lronton, to Cape 1 Giradeau on the Mississippi river. All per
 Aons who shall be taken with arms in their
 hands within these lines, shall be tried by court martial, and, if found guilty, will be shot.
 The property real and personal, of all per sons in the State of Missouri who shall be dl- | rectly proven to have taken active part with
 their enemies in the field, IS declared coniisca ted to public use, and slaves, if any they have, are hereby declared freemen. All persons who
 shall be proven to have destroyed, after the | publication ofti,s order, railroad tracks, bridges or telegraphs, shall suffer the extreme penalties of this law.
 All persons engaged in reasonable cores
 pondence, in giving or procuring aid to the en emies of the United States, Tn tormentng tu-
 muts, in disturbing the public tranquility, by
 creating and circulating false reports or incen- diary documents, are in their own interest
 warned that they are exposing themselves to sudden and severe punishment All persons
 who have been led away from their allegiance
 are required to return forthwith to their homes.
 Any such absent without sufficient cause,
 will be held to be presumptive evidence against them. The object of this declaration is to place in the hands of the military authorities
 the power to give effect to existing laws, and to supply such deficiencies as the conditions of war demand, but it Is not intendea to suspend the ordinary tribunals of the country, where the law will be administered by the civil officers i'll the usual manner, and in their customary au- thority, while the same can be peaceably exer- cised.
 The commanding general will labor vigllant- ly for the public welfare, and in bis efforts for their safety hopes to obtain not only the ac. quiescence, but the active support of the people of the country. JOHN c. FREMONT, Major Gen. Commanding.