The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-06-14
Proclamation of Gov. jackson.
JEFFERSON City, June ~

NSSSANS'A~NSo~S~N ~
JEFFERSON CITY, June ~.
10 the people Of Missouri:
A series of unprovoked and unparalleled out
RACES have been inflicted on the peace and dig
nifty of this commonwealth, aud upon the rights
and liberties of its people by wicked and UNI
principled men, protesting to ATT under the au-
thority Of the u. s. Government The eolemn
enactments of your Legislature have been multi
fed, your volunteer soldiers have been taken
prisoners, and your comnA~lco with your sister
States has been suap nd,d your trace win
your own fellow clt,zons ias been, and Is, sub
jcct to Increasing control OF an armed soldiery
peaceful citiXc.s have teen imprisoned without
warrant vi law; unofendlug and defencelcss
men, women and children have been ruthlessly
shot down and murdered !; and other unbcarable
indignlties have been heaped upon your State,
and upon yourselves. To all these outrages and
indignities you have submitted with patriotic
forbearance, which has only encouraged the
perpetrators of these grievous wrongs to attempt
still holder and more daring usurpations. 1t
has been my earnest endeavor, under all these
embarrassing circumstances, to maintain the
peace Of the State, and avert if possible, from
our borders the desoating effects of a civil war.
With that object in view, | authorized Maj.
Gen. Price, several weeks ago, to arrange
with General Harvey, commanding the federal
forces in this State, the terms of an agreement
by which the peace of the State might be pre-
served. They came on the Dist day of May,
to an understanding, which was made public.
The State authorities have labored faithfully to
carry out the terms Of this agreement. The
federal government in the other hand not only
manifested its strong disapprobation of it by
the instant dismissal of that distinguished Off
Ger, who, on its part entered into it, but it at
once began and has unintermittingly carried
out system Of hostile operations in utter con-
tempt OF that agreement, and in reckless dis
regard of its own pledged faith.
These acts have latterly portended revolution
and civil war SO Enthusiastically, that resolved
to make one further effort to avert these dangers
from you. therefore solicited in interview with
Gen. Lyon, commanding the federal army in
Missouri 1t was granted on the 1lth inst,
and waving all questions of personal and
official dignity, l went to St. Louis, accompa-
MED by Maj. Gen. Price. We had an inter
view. on the 18th inst, with Gen. Lyon and
Col. Il. P. Blair, Jr at which | submitted to
them this proposition, namely that | would
disband the State Guard and break up it's Or
ganization =; that l would dsarm all the COM
panies which had been ordered out by the State ;
that would pledge myself not to attempt to
organize the militia under the military bill ;
that no arms or munitions OF war should be
brought into the State that | would protect
all citizens equally in all their rights, regard
repress all insurrectionary movements within
the State that | would repel all attempts
made to invade it from whatever quarter and
by whomsoever made ; and that | would thus
maintain q strict neutrality in the present I'M
happy contest and preserve the peace of the
State and | further proposed that | would. if
necessary, invoke the assistance of the United
| States troops to carry out these pledges All
this proposed to do upon condition that the
| Federal Government would undertake to disarm
the Home Guards, which it has illegally organ
lied and armed throughout the State, and
pledge itself not to occupy with its troops, any
locality in the State not occupied b. them at
this time.
Nothing but the most earnest desire to avert
the horrors of civil war from our beloved State
could have tempted Inc to propose these humili-
ating terms. They were rejected by the federal
officers. They demanded not only the diaorgan-
ization and disarrning of the militia, and the
notification of the military Bill, but they re-
fused to disarm their own home guard, and in
sisted that the federal government should eniov
the unrestricted right to move and station its
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wherever that might Tin the opinion of its Off
cers) be necessary, either for the protection of
loyal subjects of the federal government, or for
repelling invasion; and they plainly announced
that 1t was the intention of the administration
to take military occupation (under these pre-
toxts) of the whole State and reduce it as ayowed
by Gen. Lyon himself to tho exact condition of
Maryland Tie acceptance by me Of these de-
grading terms would not only have sulied the
honor of Missouri. but would have aroused the
Indignation of every brave citizen, and precipi-
tated the very conflict which it has been nv
aim to prevent. We refused to accedo to them
and the conference was broken up.
Fellow Citizens all our efforts towards con-
Citation have failed. We can hope nothing for
the justice or moderation of the agents Of .hc
federal government in this State They are en-
ergetlcally Fastening tho execution, of their
bloody and revolutionary schemes for the inaug-
uration of civil war in your midst; for the mill
tary occupation of your State by armed bands of
lawless invaders; for the overthrow of your State