Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-08-23
Proclamation by President Lincoln.

United States, in view of an instruction
against the Laws, Constitution 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 enti-
tied "an act to provide for calling forth
the militia to execute the laws of the
Union, suppress instruction and repel in
vasions, and to repeal the act now in force
for that purpose, approved February 20;
1875" did call forth the militia to sup
press said instruction and cause the laws
of the Union to be duly executed, and the
insurgents have failed to dispersc by the
time directed by the President, and where
as, such instruction has since broken out
and yet exists within the STAGES of Vir-
ginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Ar
kansas, and whereas, the insurgents in all
the said States claim to act under the au-
thority thereof, and such claim is not dis
claimed or repudiated by persons exercis-
ing the functions of Government in each
State or States, or in the part or parts
thereof in which combinations exist, nor
has such instruction been suppressed by
said States.
Now, therefore, 7, Abraham Lincoln,
President of the United States, III pursu-
ancc of an act of Congress of July ID. 1861,
do hereby declare that the inhabitants of
the States of Georgia, South Carolina, Vir-
ginia, North Carolina, Tennessee Alaba-
ma. Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Miss
issippi and Florida--except the inhabit-
ants Of that part of the State of Virginia
lying west of the Alleg hany Mountains,
and such other parts of that State and
other States hereinbefore named as may
maintain loyal adhesion to the Union
and the Constitution, or may be from time
to time occupied and controlled by forces
engaged in the dispersion of said in
surgents-are ia state of instruction
against the United States, and that all
commercial intercourse between the same
and the inhabitants thereof with the ex-
ceptions aforesaid and the citizens of
| other States and other parts of the United
States is unlawful, and will remain un-
lawful, until such instruction shall cease
or has been suppressed : that all goods
chattels, wares aud merchandise coming
from any one of the said States, with the
exceptions aforesaid into other parts of the
United States, without the special licence
and permission of the President, through
the Secretary of the Treasury, or proceed
ing to any of said States, with the excep-
tions aforesaid by land 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 l5 days from the issuing
of the proclamation, all ships and vessels
belonging in whole or in part to any cit
izen or inhabitant of any of said States,
with the said exceptions, found at sea or
in any port of the United States, will be
forfeited to the United States, and here
by cnjoin upon all district attorneys,
marshals, and officers of the revenue, and
of the military and naval forces of the
United States, to be vIgilant in the exc
cution Of said act, and in the enforcement
of the penalties and forfeiturcs imposed or
declared by it, leaving any party who
may think 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 circumstances of
any case shall require such remission.
In witness whereof | have hercunto set
my hand and caused the seal ofthe United
States to be affixed.
Done in the City of Washington, this 10th
day of August, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixty
one, and of the independence Of the
United States the eighty-sixth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Ry the President.