Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-07-07
Yesterday Afternoons Report.
PROCLAMATION RY THE PREsI-
DENT.
WASHINGTON, July 5

w WASHINGTON, July 8.
WHEREAS. By the proclamation which
was issued on the T5Jn uay OF n 1r4l,-1oc1
the President of the United States an
nounced and declared that the laws of the
United States had for some time past, and
then were, opposed, and the execution
thereof obstructed in certain States therein
mentioned, by combinations too powerful
to be suppressed by the ordinary course of
judicial proceedings, or by the power vest
ed in the marshals by law, and
WHEREAS, Immediately after the issu-
ing of the said proclamation, the and ant
naval forces of the United State were pud
into activity to suppress the said insurrec-
ton and rebellion, and
Whereas, The Congress of the United
States, by an act approved on the third
day of March, 1863, did enact that during
said rebellion the President of the United
States, whenever in his judgment the pub
lie safety may require it, is authorized to
suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas
corpus in any case Throughout the United
States, or any part thereof, and
Whereas, The said insurrection and re-
belliOn still continues, endangering the
existence of the Constitution and Govern
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Whereas, The military forces of the
United States are now actively engaged
in suppressing the said insurrection and
rebellion in various parls of the States
where the said rebellion has been success
ful in obstructing the laws and public
authorities, especially in the States of Vir-
ginia and Georgia.
And WHEREAS, on the 18th day of Sep
tember last the President of the United
States duly issued his proclamation where
in he declared that the privilege of the
writ of habeas corpus should be suspended
throughout the United States in cases
whereby tho authority of the President of
the United States, the military, naval and
military officers of the United States, or
any of them, hold persons under their com
mand, or in their custody, either as prison
ers of war spies, aiders or abettors of the
enemy,or officers, soldiers or seamen, en-
rolled, or 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
the rules and articles of war, or the rules
and regulations prescribed for the military
and naval service, by authority ofthe Pre-
sident of the United States, or for resisting
draft, or for any other offence against the
military or naval service; and WHEREAs
many citizens of the state of Kentucky
have joined the forces of insurgents; have
on several occasions entered the said State
of Kentucky in large force, and not with
out aid and comfort furnished by disafect-
ed and disloyal citizens of the United
States residing therein, have not only great
ly disturbed the public peace, but have
overborne the civil authorities and made
fragrant civil war, destroying property and
| life in various parts of that State.
WHEREAS, 1t has been made known to
the President Of the United States by the
officers commanding the national armies,
that combinations have been formed in
the said State of Kentucky, with the plir-
pose of melting the rebel forces to renew
| the said operations of civil war within the
said State and thereby to embarass the
United States armies now operating in the
said States of Virginia and Georgia and
even to endanger their safety,
Now, therefore, ], Abraham Lincoln
President of the United States, BY virtue
of the authority vested in me by the Con.
stitution and Laws, do hereby declare that
in my Judgment the public safety especial
", that requires the suspension of the pri
yilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus 81
, proclaimed in the said Proclamation of tht