The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-08-17
another Important Arrest In
New York.
Seizure Of Two Hundred Thousand Do3afs
1lem England for the South.
Indictment Of Newspapers by the Unit ed
States Grand Jury,
&c., &C., he.
IMPORTANT PROCLAMATION OF TIRE PREsID' iNT.

WASHINGTON, August l6 1851.
DY rHE Pax1DENT OF THE UNITED STAT rs OF
Al PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, on the fifteenth day OF April, the
President Of lie United States, il view of an
instruction ma g linst the laws constitution and
the 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 thu provisions of
the act entitled vet to provide for calling forth
che militia to execut the laws Of Tie Union sup
press instructions and rcpel iirvSsions, and to
repeal the act low in force for thai purpose, ap-
proved February 49, 1895, did call horh the militia
to suppress SAID insm .rection and cause the laws
of the Union to be du " executed and the insur.
gents have failed to d ,perse by the time directed
by the President;
And whereas, an I'll in eurrectien las since broken
out and yet exists will lin the States of Virginia,
North Carolina, Teme wsee and Arkansas; and
whereas the insurgents IN all the sei6 States claim
to act under authorit1 til erect, and such claim is
mot dsclaimed or repudia ted by the person exer-
tcising the functions of go verment 4in such State
or States, or in the part parts thes cof in which
combinations exist, nors ha such instruction been
suppressed by said States
Now, therefore, /, Abr, II lam LINCOLN. President
of the United States in pa, vance efanact Of Con-
gress, passed July 10, 1861 db hereby declare that
the inhabitants of the sadsata ties of Georgia, South
Carolina, Virginia, North c, srolins, Tennessee,
Alabama, Louisiana, Texas rkansaS, Mississippi
and Florida Except the nhai'it 'nts of thai part of
the State Of Virginia lying west -of the Allegheny
Mountains, and OF such other pa..'s OF tiatstate,
And the oil err States hereA befor., named, as may
maintain a loyal adhesion to the Uaaion and thecon'
stitutop, or may he from time a. time occnpied
and controlled by the forces engaged in
The Dispersion of said insurgeAts) are IN
a state of insurrec;ion against the Unit
course between the same and the Inhabtants
thereof, with tie exceptions aiorcspio.. and the
citizens of other States and other l~,ts OF the
United states is unlawful, aed win rema.n unIaw
tul until sucl Hsnfrccton N2ll cease OF hts Deen
suppressed; that all goods vi chattels WIRES and
merchandise, coming from an o. said states, with
che exceptions Aforesaid into other parts Of the
United States, without the specul License and per-
mission Of the President, through i'- Secretary Of
Shc Treasury, proceeding to any vi said States,
with the exceptions aforesaid, 10y .end or water,
together with the vessel or vehicle c,'nEeyng the
same or Surveying persons 10 or from said States,
with said exceptions, viii be forfeited TO Me United
States; and t,at from and after fifteen DAYS from
the issuing of this proclamation all ships AMI
aels belonging in whole or in part to MY citizen or
infl,bitan, Of any of said States with said excep-
fions, found at sea or III any port of the United !
States, will be forfeited to the United States.
And hereby epjoin upon all District Attorneys,
Aasshalls anu officers Of The revenue, and Of the