Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-11-27
ProcIamation of Gen. Dix.

BALTIMORE, Nov ID
About four thousand troops, including Minis
Boston battery, viii march from Snow Hill, Ma
ryland, into AccOmac and Northa mpton counties
Virginia, to-day. Accomac is prepared TO array
itself for the Union, but Northampton shows
fight
The following proclamation from Gen. Dix has
been sent in advance of the expedition:
To the people Of AccOmGe and Northampton cOHn-
ties, Virginia:
The military forces of the United States are
about TO enter your counties as a part of the
Union. They will go among you as friends, and
with the earnest hope that they may not, by your
acts, be forced 10 become your enemies. They
will invade no rights of person or property: on
the contrary, your laws, your Institutions, your
usages will be scrupulously respected. There
need be no fear that the quietude of any freside
will be disturbed, unless the disturbance is caused
by yourselves. Special directions have been Civ
not to interfere with the condition of any per-
son held to domestic service, and, I'm order that
there may be no ground for mistake or pretext
tor Misrepresentation, commanders Of regiments
and c. rps have been instructed not to permit any
such persons to come within their lines.
The command OF the expedition is entrusted
to Brigadier- General Henry II. Lockwood, of
Delaware, State identical, in some of the dis
tinctive features of its social organization, with
your own. Portions of his force come from
counties in Maryland, bordering on one of yours
From him and from them you may be assured
of sympathy of near neighbors as well as friends.
if you do not repel it by hostile resistance at
tack
Their mission is to assert the authority of the
United States, to reopen your intercourse with
the loyal States, and especially with MARYLAND,
which has just proclaimed her devotion to the
Union by the most triumphant vote in her polit-
ical annals; 10 restore TO commerce its accustOm-
ed guides, By re-establishing lights upon your
coast TO afford you free export for the products
of your labor, and free ingress for the necessa-
ries and comforts of life which YOU require in ex
change, and, in word to put an end 10 the en-
6arrasSments and restrictions brought upon you
/ by causeless and unjustihable rebellion.
If the calamities of intestine war which are
desOlatng other districts of Virginia, and have
already crinisoned her fields with fraternal blood
fall upon YOU, it will be the fault of the Gov
eminent 1t asks only that its authority may be
recognized. Ii sends among you force too
strong to be successfully opposed. force which
cannot be resisted in any other spirit than that of
wantoness and malignity. If there are any among
you who, rejecting all overtures of friendship.
/ thus provoke retaliation, and draw down upon
themselves the consequences which the Govern
ment is most anxious to avoid-to their account
must be laid the blood which may be shed and the
desOlaton which NAV be brought upon peaceful
homes On all who are thus reckless of the OBJ
/ legations of humanity and duty, and on all who
are found in arms, the severest punishment war
ranted by the laws of war will be visited.
To those who remain in the quiet pursuit of
their domestic occupations the public authorities
assure all tsey can give peace, freedom from an
noyance, protection from foreign and and inter-
nal enemies, guarantee of all constitutional and
legal rights, and the blessings OF a just and pa
rental government.
(Signed,) JOIN A. DIX.
Mai. Gen. Commanding.