Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-09-25
The Presidens's Prociamasion.


.4au yu WAsHrEaroN, Aug. l6, 1851.
BIZ TEE PRrsrDrsr OF THE UsrrrD STATS OF
| AMRAIcA:
| Whereas, on the fifteenth day of April, ths
Pfesident of the Uoited States, 10 view Of an
insurrection against the laws, Constitution
and the Government of the United States,
which had broken out within the States Of
South Carolina, Georgis, Alabama, Florida,
Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, and In pur-
suance Of the provisions of the act entitled an
act to provide for calling forth the militia to
execute the laws of the Union, suppress inaur.
rection, and repel invasions, and TO repeal the
act now in force for that purpose, approved
February %, 1875. did call forth the militia to
suppress said insutreetion and cause the laws
Of the Union to be duly executed, and the In
surgents have failed 70 disperse by the time di-
rected BY the President; ~ tl.
And, whereas, such insurreotion has since
broken ont and yet exists within the States Of
Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Ar
kansas, and, whereas, the insurgents In all the
said States claim to act under authority there
of, and such claim is not disclaImed or repudi'
ated BY the person exercising the functions oi
Government In such State or States, or In the
part or parts thereof In which oombina lions ex-
ist, nor has such insurrection been suppressed
By said States; st n -e. E.4.t
Now, therefore, /, Abraham Lincoln, Presi
dent Of the United States, in pursuance OF an
act Of Congress, passed July l3, 1861, do here
BY declare that the inhabitants Of the said StateI
OF Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, North
Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Tsx
as, Arkansas, Mississippi and Florida (excsp
the Inhabitants Of that part of the State of Viz
ginis lying west Of the Allegheny Mountains
A<<e ~tkn .E 49, - Al
other States hereinbefore named, as maj
maintain loyal adhesion to the Union anl
the Constitution, or as may be from tim,
TO time occupied and enrolled by the force
engaged In the dispersion of said insur
gents) are In o state Of insureetion against th,
United States, and that all commercial inter
course between the same and the inhabitant
thereof, with the exceptions aforesaid, and th,
citizens of other States and other parts Of th,
United States is unlawful, and will remain un
lawful until such insurrection shall cease or ha
been suppressed; that al eeode and chattels
ioares and merchandise, coming from ans of sal
States, with the exceptions aforesaid, into othe
parts Of the United States, without the specia
license and permission Of the President, througl
the Secretary of the Treasury, or proceeding ;
any of said States, with the exceptions afore
said, by land or water, together with the vess.
or oehtete eonueyng the same, or conveying person
10 or from said States iptk SAID exceptions, aciA
forfeited 10 ts United States; aad that from an
4 after fifteen days from tho psa,n9 of this Procla
mation. al ships aud vesseis belonging in sohoie
IN part 10 any eitssn or iahabitsat Of any Of sal
Sf.ts, scth said exceptions, found at sea or 4
4 eng port Of The Unit,d Staiss soW be forfeited
| TIE United States. d a-rs-.s t.s' - ,lags.
And hereby epjoin npon all District AttoE
neys, Msrahals, and oficers Of the revenue, an
i Of the militery and naval forces OF the Unite
\ States 70 be yigilAnt In the execution Of sal
act, and ID the enforcement Of the penalties an
lforfeitdrss imposed o. declAfed, BY 1t, leavin
4 any party who may think .himself. aggrieye
4 thereby 70 his application 20 the Secretary
the Treasury for the Remission of any penals,
4 Of Tor fotfsitare which the said Secfesaty IL d
\ thoriEed BY law to grant, II, In his judemen
the special circumstance Of any case shAll 1,
lQuire such reInission.
\ In witness whereof I have hsreunto set d,
hsed, ssd g q caused the seal Of the United state
4 Done ID shs city Of Washington, ihis lst
i day Of Auenss, In the year of our Lord 1891
and oi the independence Of the United State
4 ~ 's' I ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
n By the Presidsnt, 4 80
,fWM. n. SrFARp. Secretary of State.