Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-12-14

c0lored persons or white persons IN charge Of
such otherwise than lawfully as prisoners OF war.
and which persons may be found in the United
States service as soldiers, seamen or IN any other
capacity. And do further proclaim. declare and
make known that whoever in any of the
States of Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississ-
ippi, Tennessee, Alabama. Georgia, Florida
South Carolina and North Carolina, a number Of
persons not less than one-tenth Of the number of
the votes cast in such State at the Presidential
election of the year of our Lord 1860, each hav
ing taken the oath aforesaid, and not having
since violated it, and being a qualified voter by
the election laws of the State existing the Janu-
ary before the act of secession, and excluding all
others, shall be established State Governments
which shall be republican, and no wise contrayen
ing said oath. Such shall be recognized as the
true governments of the State, and the State
shall receive thereunder the benefits of the con
stitutional provision, which declares that the
United States shall guarah htee TO every State
in the Union "a republican, form of
government, and shall protect each Of
them against invasion. and on application of
the Legislature, or the Executive when the Le-
gislature cannot be convened, against domestic
violence. And do further proclaim, declare
and make known that any provision which may
be adoPted by such State Government in relation
to the freed people Of such State which shall re-
cegnize and declare their permanent freedom and
provide for their education, and which may vet be
consistent, as temporary arrangement, with their
present coRtition labotlng, landless and
homeless class, will not be objected to by the
National Executive. And it is suggested rs not
improPer that in constructing loyal state gov
era ament in any State, the name of the boundary,
the subdivision, the constitution, and the federal
code of laws as before the resellion, be maintain
ed, subject only to notifications made necessary
by the conditions hereinbefore stated, and such
Others, if any, contravening said conditions, and
which may be deemed expedent by those franz
ing the new state government To
avoid misunderstanding, il may be pro-
per to say ;hat this proclamation so far
as II relates to a State government, has no refer
ence TO States wherein loyal State governments
have all the while been maintained. and for the
same reason il may be proper to further say that
whether members ssnt TO Congress from any
State shall be admitted to seats consttutionally,
rests exclusively with the respective Houses,
not 70 any extent with the executive. and state
further that this proclamation is intended to
present, to the people of the States where the
national authority has been suspended and loyal
State governments 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 when the mode pre-
sented is the best, the Executive can suggest with
his present impression, it must not be understood
that another possible mode would not be accept
able.
Given under my hand at the city of Washing
ton this, the 9Th day of December. A. D.. 1863,
and of the Independence of the United States of
America, the eighty eighth.
By the President: ssia
WM H. SEWARD, Secretary OF State. -