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ANOTHER PROCLAMATION FROM OLD ABE.
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ANOTHER PROC EAMATfoN FROM OLD ABE
& All the Southern Ports to be Blockaded : %
Tie National intelligence Of Saturday, publishes
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WHEREAS an Instruction against tho Govern.
ment of the United States has broken out in the
States of South Carolpa, Georgia Alabama, Florida
Mississippi Louisiana, and Texas, and the laws of
the United States for the collection Of the revenue
cannot be efsctually executed therein conformably
to that provision Of the Constitution which requires
duties to be uniform throughout the United States
And whereas combination of persons, engaged
in such Instruction, have threatened to grant pre-
tended letters Of marque to authorize the bearers
thereof to commit assaults on the lives vessels and
property Of good citizens of the country lawfully
engaged in commerce on the high seas and in wa
tiers Of the United States: ~
And whereas an Executive Proclamation has been
already issued, requiring the persons engaged in
these disorderly proceedings to desist therefrom,
calling out militia force for the purpose Of repress-
ing the same and converting Congress in extraorin-
ary session to deliberate and determine thereon:
Now. therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President
of the United States, with view to the same pur-
poses before mentioned and to the protection of the
public peace, and the lives and property of quiet
and orderly citizens pursuing their lawful occupa
tons, until Congress shall have assembled and de-
liberated on the SAD unlawful proceedings, or until
the same shall have ceased have further deemed it
advisable to set foot blockade of the ports with
in the State aforesaid in pursuance of the laws Of
the United States and of the law Of nations in such
case provided. For this purposes competent force
will be posted to prevent entrance and exit of
vessels from the ports aforesaid If therefore with
q view to violate such blockade, vessel shall ap-
proach. or shall attempt to leave any of the said
ports she will be duly warned by the Commander
of one Of the blockadng vessels, who will endorse
on her register the fact and date of such warning
and if the same vessel shall again attempt to enter
or leave the blockaded port she will be captured
and sent to the nearest convenient port, for such
proceedings against her and her cargo as prize as
may be deemed advisable.
And I hereby proclaim and declare that if any
person under the pretended authority Of the said
States under any other pretence, shall modest a
vessel of the United States the persons or cargo
on board of her. such persons will be held amenabe
to the laws of the United States for the prevention
and punishment of piracy.
In witness Whereof have hereunto set nv hand,
and caused the seal of the United States to
be affixed
Done at the City of Washington, this nine
H. ST. teenth day Of April in the year of our Lord,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty one,
and of the Independence of the United States
the eighty fifth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
WILLIAM Fl. SEWARD, Secretary of State.