Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-08-20
Proclamation by the Presi-
dent.
Washington, Aug. 16

WasiinS ton, Aug 16.
The following proclamation has been is
sued by the President:
HHsreas, On the 18th day Of April. the
President of the United States, in view { {
an insurrection against the laws, constitu
ton, and government of the United States,
which had broken out within the States of
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Flori-
da, Mississippi. Louisiana, and Texas and
in pursuance Of the provisions of an act
entitled IAN act to provide for calling
forth the militia to execute the laws Of the
Union, suppress Instruction, and repel in
vasIon, and to repeal the act now in force
for that purpose, approved February 2Sth,
1895" did call forth the militia to suppress
said insurreetion and cause the laws of the
nstion to be Gully executed 4; and the insur>
gents have failed to disperse by the time
directed by the President; and,
Whereas, Such instruction has since
broken out and yet EXISTS in the States of
Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and
Arkansas and
Whereas, The insurgents in all the said
States claim to act under authority thereof,
md such claim is not disclaimed or rcpudi
rted by the persons exercising the Sunc-
tons of the government in such State or
States. or in part or parts thereof. in which
combinations exist, nor have such insurrec.
tons been suppressed by such States
Now, therefore. l. Abraham Lincoln,
President Of the United States. in pursu
nnce of an act of Congress of July 9Th,
1861, d. hereby declare that the inhabitants
of the said States Of Georgia, South Car
olina, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee,
Alabama, Louisiana. Texas, Arkansas,
Mississippi, and Florida, excrnt inhabitants
al part of the State ol Virginia living
west of the Allegheny Mountains, and of
such other part Of that State and other
States hereiuherorc named ~ NAV main
TAIN luynl adhesion t. the Union ard the
constitution, or may be from time ~ time
OCCUPIED and controlled by the forces en-
gagged IN the dispersion of said insurgents.
gre IN n state Cf insurrection against the !
Quilted Safes and that commercial inter !
course between the same aud the irhahi. /,
tants thereof. with the executions aforesaid /
and the citizens Of other States and n.bnr /
parts Of the United States is unlawful and !
viii remain unlawful until such irsurrec |
Tuna shall cease or shall have hoan sun.
pressed: that an goods and rhn,-Iae rrerr.
and merehanise coming r. IA any oF The |
SAID Sntas. with the praertirpa @ aforesaid /
i9tl o'ae- urr-s M rhp United States With
oar t7- sna-if' lr-'77 and permission If /
th9 President. through The Secrotarv If the /
i'etsutg. or proceeding o. any ~ the said
oate3, with th@ cxrrntionz aforesaid hv
Ilnd ny water. with the vessel nr veLi,in
conveying the saur r. cnuvavirr pnrSnns
- and from srii S~tos WITH sni+ rzrar
tons. viii hN forfeited ~ the United States
Aud from I'D after tho fe,cnn davs fr'm
the issuing nf this proclamation NJ shirs
AMI vess"ls beiongiug IN whole or in rart
~ anv citizen or inhahitant Of am of said
States. with said excaptiors. found Mt sea
or in any port nf the United States, will be
forfeited To the United States
And hereby enioin on all District At /
tOrnevs, Marshals. and officers Of the rev
euue. the military and naval forces nf the /.
United States, 70 ba vigilant in tho execu- /
ton of said act. and IN the Inducements nf I
the penalties and f,rfeitures imnosed nr de .
clared by it. leaving any party who may /
think himself aggrieved thereby ~ his an !
pientiou to the Secretary of the Treasury
Tor the remission Of any penalty or forfAit> /
ury, which the said Secretary is authorized /
by law tn grant if in his judgment. the /
special circumstances Of any case shall res
quire such remission
In witness whereof / have SGT nv hand
and caused the seal Of the United States to
be affixed. and done in the Citv of Wash.
lngtou. this 10th day Of August. Ammo
D'mini 1861, and of the Independence of
the United States
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
BY the President:
VIZ. II. SEWARD, Secretary of State.