The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-09-25
THE PRESIDENTS PROCLAMA-
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Habeas Corpus to be suspended I'm
Military or Naval Cases.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 1868.
By tie President Of the United States: Illus
A PROCLAMATION. ,r-.
WHEREAS, The Constitution of the Unite
States has ordained that the privilege of Il e
writ OF habeGs corpus shall not be suspended,
unless when in cases of rebellion or invasi IN
the public safety may require it, and
WHEREAS A rebellion was existing on the
Sd day of March, 1868, 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
instruction the President of the United
States, whenever in his judgment the public
safety may require it, is authorized to suspend
the privilege of the writ of h05eas corpus in
any State throughout the United State or any
part thereof, and !.
WHEREAS. In the judgment of the President
the public safety does require that the privi-
lege of the said writ shall now be suspended
throughout the United States. in cases where
by the authority of the President of the United
States, military, naval or civil officers of the
United States, or any of them, hold persons
under their command or in their custody, eth
er as prisoners of war, spies, or aiders q abet-
tors OF the enemy, or officers soldiers or sea-
men enrolled, drafted or mustered or enlisted
or belonging to the land Or naval forces of the
United States, or as deserters therefrOm or
otherwise amenable 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, or for any
other offence against the military or naval SER
vice.
Now, therefore, l, Abraham Lincoln, Presi-
dent of the United States. do hereby proclaim
and make known to all whom it may concern,
that the privilege of the writ of hueos corpus is
suspended throughout the United States IN the
several cases before mentioned and that this
suspension will continue throughout the dura-
ton Of the said rebellion, or until this procla-
nation shall, by a subsequent one to be issued
by the President of the United suites, be modi-
fed or revoked.
do hereby require all magistrates, attorneys
and other civil officers within the United States,
and all officers and others in the military and
naval services of the United States to take dis
tinct notice of this suspension and give it full
effect, and all citizens of the United States to
conduct and govern themselves accordingly,
and in conformity with the Constitution of
the United States and the laws of Congress
in such cases made and provided In testi-
mOny whereof l have hereunto set my hand
and caused the seal of the United States to be
affixed, this 10th day of September, in the year
OF our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty three, and Of the Independence of the
United States of America the eighty-eighth
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
By the President.
WIN. ii. SEWARD, Secretary of State.