The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-12-12

OF snail have been civil or diplom.so "a,
GERS or agents OF the so-called ConfaS.ouaana-
government, and who have left T.S.ate
stations under the United States ~ ' os
heDeillon-all who are or shall b.n a'u the
Military or Naval officers of the ran1 Ieen
NaS, ~ tne Army, or Lieutenant in ,b Ul
4 Statss C,n,, VINO ieit seats in the UnitaS
VINO resigned their commissions in ,I a
my and Navy. Of the United States ae ar ar,
afterwards aided the rebellion sna ana
VINO nave been engaged, in anu me-. all
treating colored persons or white nasy,ln
IN charge OF such, otherwise than lawsnuhs,
as prisoners OF war, and which persons -
DE found IN the United States service nay
sotuatrs seamen, or in any other capaci, AZ
ANA do further proclaim. declaro
make known that, whenever in tho S.s ana
OF Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi fo niaies
ma, tennessee, Alabama, Florida ce!a-
South Carolina and North Caroline eolgla,
per OF persons, not less than ona.,nu, nulh-
tne number OF voters at the Presdan,,ooii
Eiection IN the year Of our Lord IssO aaah
having taken the oath aforesaid, and MI nnt
having since violated it, and beino q 10, not
fed voter by the election laws of fha l l,s
existing immediately before the so.caiios
act OF secession and excluding all others
shall be established a State povarn,na.s,
when shall be Republican and in no u;ua
contravening said oath, such shall no use
cognized as the true government If H. H..
State, aDG the States shall receive tban, ~, ne
def the benefits of the Constitutional NJ
visions, which declares that the United
States shall guarantee to every State i'm tbis
onlon republican form of Government
and shall protect each of them against in
vasion, upon application of the Lepislatnro
or the Executive when the Legislature can
not be convened against domestic violence
"a. do further proclaim, declare and
make Known, that any provision which
may be adopted by such State Government
IN relation to the freed people ofsuch State
which shall recognise and declare their
permanent freedom, and provide for their
education, and which may yet be consistent
as aEtemporary arrangement, with their
present condition as laboring, landess
and homeless class, will not be objected to
by the National Executive, and it is sug-
gested as not improper that in constructing
a loyal State Government in any State the
name, the boundary, the subdivision. the
constitution, and the Federal code of laws.
as before the rebellion, be maintained SUBJ
Ject only to notifications made necessary
by the condition herein before stated, and
such others, II any, not contravening such
condition, which may be deemed eXpedient
by those framing the new State Govern
ment.
10 avoid misunderstanding. it may be
proper to say that this Proclamation, so
far as it relates to State Governments, has
no reference to States wherein loyal State
Governments have all the while been
and for the same reason il
may be proper further to say that whether
sent to Congress from any State
shall be admitted to seats couventionally,
rests exclusively with the respective Hou-
ses, and not to any extentiwith the Execu-
tive. And still further, that this Procama-
ton is intended to present to the people of
the States wherein the National authority
has been suspended and loyal State Gov
have been subverted. a mode by
which the National authority over every
loyal State Government may be established
within said States, or any of them; and
while the mode presented is the best the
Executive can suggest, with his present
it must not be understood that
another possible mode would not be ac-
cepted.
Given under my hand at the CITY of
Washington. the Sth day of December. A.
D. One Thousand Eight Hundred and
Sixty three, and of the independence of the
United States of America the Eighty eighth
SSth).
[Signed.l ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President,
WIN. II. SEWARD, Secretary of State.