Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1861-09-25

sufficient answer to such claim that the
person whose service or labor is claimed
had been employed in hostile service
against the government OF the United
States, contrary to the provisions of this
act"
This act was reluctantly approved and
signed by President Lincoln Oh the 9th oil
August. Another act was passed, contls-
eating the property of rebe.s, bu, not in
cluding slaves. Upon this latter act the
President, on the 10th Of August, issued
the following proclamation
WAsmEGToN, Aug lG, 1861.
By THE PREsiDcNT OF THE L. Scr AMERICA:
PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, on the fifteenth day OF April,
the President OF the United States, in view
Of an insurrectioa against the laws, CON
stitution and the government of the Unit
ted States, which had broken out within
the States of South Carolina, Georgia, All
ALBANIA, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and
Texas, and in pursuance of the provisions
of the act entitled an act to provide for
calling forth the militia to execute the
laws Of the Union, suppress instructions
and repel inva:ions, and 10 repeal the act
now in force for that purpose, approved
February 2S, 1895, did call forth the nllio
tia to suppress said nGUrrection and cause
.he laws of the Union to be duly executed,
and the insurgents have failed to dlsperSe
by the time directed by the President:
And whereas, such insurrection has
since broken out and yet eXish in ,he
States Of Virginia, North Carolina Ten
nessee and Arkansas and whereas, the
insurgents in all the said States claim to
act under authority thereof, and such
claim is not repudlated by the person eX-
ercising the functions Of government in
such State or States, or in the part or parts
thereof in which combinations exist, nor
has such insurfection been suppressed ly
said States:
Now therefore, [, Abraham Lincoln,
President of the United States, in pursu
ance of an act of Congress, passed July Is,
1861, do hereby declare that the inhabit-
ants of the said States of Georgia, South
Carolina Virginia North Carolina, TcL>
nessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Ark
ansas, Mississippi and Florida Except the
inhabitnnts OF that part of the State OF
Virginia lying west of the Allegheny
Mountains, and Of such other parts otthat
State and the other States herein before
named as may maintain loyal adhesion
TO the Union and the constitution, or may
be from time 20 time occupied and con-
trolled by the forces engaged III the dis
persion of said insurgents) are in a state
of instruction against the'Unitcd States,
and that all commercial intercourse be,
tween the same and the inhabitants there.
&. H. o,.oaa,,,,,. op,nn=o,1 n,l tl,N
citizens of other States and other parts of
the United States, is unlawful and will
remain unlawful until such instruction
shall cease or has been suppressed; that
all GoodS amt chdttelS, wares Cpd merchandise,
coming from any ot Sam States, with the eX-
ceptiors 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 said Stbtes, with the excep>
tions aforesaid, by land or water, together
with the rcS8ci or rchicic conreyipg the same,
or conveying persons to or from said SdtcS, cW
said exceptions, wiH6c l1rfdted to the United
States and that from amt after .tJtep days. ION,
tie issuing Of this procLamatoa, all ships amt
veSSels beioaip9 IN Jkole or IL popt to any citizen
or mLaJitant Of said States, wih sail etceptionS
totmd at sea or IN any portof the Unitcd States,
vW be forfeited 10 the Tndcd StatcS
And hereby enjoin upon all District
Attorneys, Marsh0ls and officers of the
revenue, and of the military and naval
forces of the United States, to be vigIlaEt
in the execution Of said act, and in the
enforcement of the penalties and forfeit.
ures imposed or declared by it, leaving
any party who may think himself aggriev.
ed thereby to his application to the Sec
rotary Of the Treasury for the remission
Of any penalty, or for forfeiture, which the
said Secretary is authorized 10y law to
grant, if, in his judgment, the special cir
cums!ances Of any case shall require such
remission.
In witness whereof have hereunto set
my hand, and caused the seal Of the Uni
ted States TO be affixed
Done in the city of Washington, this
10th day of August, in the year of our
Lord 1861, and OF the Ind ependenco Of
the United States the eighty sixth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President VIM. II. Seward, Sec
rotary of State.
Towards the latter end of August the
condition of things IN Missouri was such
as 10 warrant General Fremont, under au-
thorty of the act of Congress already cited
TO proclaim the existence Of martial law
IN that State, with all its pains and pen-
alues. including the freedom Of slaves be-
longing to persons taken with arms in
their hands in the following emphatic
language -
PROCLAMATION OF MAJOR GENER-
| AL FREMONT.
HFADQuARrERs or THE WESTERN DEpr,
! ST. LOUIS, AuguSt 81, 1861
Circumstances, in my judgement of suf.
ticient urgency, render it necessary that
/ the Commanding General of this depart
should assume the administrative powers
of the State. Its disorganzed condition,
the helplessness OF the civil authority, the
total Insecurity of life and tho 1eyastas