The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1863-09-25
Suspension Of the Writ Of Habeas Cor
pus throughout the United States.
WASHINGTON, September Is.
By tie President Of the United States.
A NATION.

By tie President Of the United States.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, The Constitution of the United
States has ordained that ''the privilege of the
writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended un-
less when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the
public safety may require it," and whereas, d
rebellion was existing on the Sd day OF March,
1868, and which rebellion is still existing; and
whereas, by statute which was approved on
that day, it was enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the United States
in Congress assembled, that during the present
insurection, the President of the United States,
whenever, in his judgment the public safety
may require, is authorized to suspend the privl-
ege of the writ of ha5eaS corpus in any case
throughout the United States or any part there
of; and whereas, in the judgment of the Pres
ident, the public safety does require that the
privilege of thesaid writ shall now be suspend
ed throughout the United States in cases where,
by the authority of the President of the United
States, military, naval, ard civil officers Of the
United States, or any of them, hold persons un-
der their command or in their custody, either as
prisoners Of war, spies, or aiders or abettors
of the enemy, or officers, soldiers, or seamcn en-
longing to the land or naval forces of the United
States, or as deserters therefrom, or otherwise
amenabe to military law, or to the rules and
articles Of war, or to the rules and regulations
prescribed for the military or naval service by
the authority of the President of the United
States, or for resisting draft, OF for any Other
oiIel.se against the military or naval service.
Now, therefore, i, Abraham Lincoln, President
Of the United States, do hereby proclaim and
make known, to all whom it may concern, that
the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus is sus
pended throughout the United States in the sew
eral cases before mentioned, and that this sus-
pension will continue throughout the duration of
the said rebellion, or until this proclamation
shall by subsequent one, to be issued by the
President of the United States, be modified and
revoked; and L do hereby require all magistrates,
attorneys, and other civil officers within the u
nited States, and all officers and others in the
military and naval service of the United States
to take distinct notice Of this suspension and
give it full effect, and all citizens of the United
States to conduct and govern themselves accor-
dinghy and in conformity with the Constitution
of the United States and the laws of Congress
in such cases made and provided.
In testimony whereof have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United States
to be affixed, this fifteenth day of September,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-three and Of the independ
ence of the United States of America the eigh-
ty eighth. .r,.,s. ...a..s ..r.'
| e-snoa. e ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
by the President: ~. fa o. 81
WIN. H. SEWARD, a,t sfre
! Secretary of State.