Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-07-16


By the President If 4e Unitsd States Of AmqleG
A PRocLAMATToN.t sSl1l3 1851,
WHEREAS, By the proclamation which was issued
che 18th day of APRIL 1861, the President Of the
United States announced and declared that the
laws of the Uuited States had been for some time
pat ana then were opposed, and the execution
thereof obstructed in certain States therein men
TONED, by combinations too powerful to be sup
pressed by the ordinary course OF judicial pro-
ceedngs, as by the power vested in the Marshal by
law and ~ s-.ff
WHEREAS, Immediately after the issuing of the
said proclamation the land and naval forces of the
United States put into activity to suppress
the said instruction and rebellion, and
WHEREAS, The Congress of the United States by
on act approved on the third day of March, 1868,
did enact that during the said rebellion the Presi
dent of the United States, whenever in his judg
ment the public safety may require it, is authorized
to suspended the privilege of the writ of habeas
corpus in any case throughout the United States
any part thereof, and
WHEREAS, The said instruction and rebellion
still continues, endangering the existence of the
Constitution of the government of the United
States, and ~ 81
WHEREAS, As the military forces of the United
States are now actively engaged in suppressng said
instruction and rebellion in various parts of the
States where the said rebellion has been successful
in obstr ueting the laws and public authorities, es-
peeially in the States of Virginia and Georgia. and
WHEREAS, On the 18th day of September last the
President of tho United States duly issued his
proclamation wherein he declares that the privi-
Iege of the writ of habeds corpus should be sus-
pended throughout the United States in eases
whereby the authority of the President of the
he mil nd n;vsl a.
or the United states, ANY .tuen, nod persons
under their command or in their custody, either
prisoners of war, spies or aiders or abet-
tors of the enemy, officers, soldiers, or
seamen, enrolled, drafted or mustered in
or enlisted belonging to- the land or naval
forces of the United States, as deserers there
from, otherwise amenable to military law or the
rules and articles of war, the rules and regula-
tions prescribed for the military naval services
by the authority of the President of the UDited
States, for resisting draft, for any other Of
fence against the military naval service; and,
whereas, many citizens OF the State of Kentucky
have. joined the forces of the Insurgents, and
have on several occasions entered said state of
Kentucky in large force, and not without aid or
comfort furnished by disaected and disloyaI cit-
of the I'm tied States residing there, have not
only disturbed the public peace, but have over
borne the civil authorities and made fagrant civil
war, destroying property and life in various parts of
that state and, whereas, it has been made known
to the President OF the United States by the
officers commanding the National armies, that COM
binations have been formed in said State OF Ken
lucky with purpose of inctin; rebel forces to re-
the said operations of civil within
and thereby to embarrass the United States armies
by operating in said states Of Virginia aud eorgia
and even to endanger their safety, s..s. -.s.
Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President
of the United States, by virtue OF the authority
vested in me by the Constitution and laws do
hereby declare that in my judgment the public
safety especially requires that the suspension of
the privilege of the writ Of hdbsaS corpus pro-
claimed in the said proclamation of the 18th of
September, 1868, be made effectual, and be duly
enforced in and throughout the said state of Ken
lucky, and that martial law be for the present de-
| clared therein.
do therefore hereby require of the military Of
cers in the said State that the privileges of the
Writ OF Habeas Corpus be effectually suspended
within the said State, according TO the aforesaid
proclamation, and that martial law be established,
to take effect from the date OF this proclamation
The said suspension and establishment of mar
tial law to continue until this proclamation shall
be revoked or modified, but not beyond the period
when the said rebellion shall have been suppressed
or come to an end. 81
And do hereby require and command, as well
military all civil officers and authnrities existing
found within the said state of Kentucky to take
notice of this proclamation, and to give full effect
to the and the martial law herein proclaimed,
and the things in that respect herein ordered will
not be deemed taken to interfere with the hold
ing of elections with the proceedings of the
stitutiona Legislature of Kentucky, or with the adj
mnistration of justice in the courts of law existing
therein between citizens of the United States, in
suits or proceedings which do nos affect the militia
ry operations the constituted authorities of the
| Governm emit of the United States q
In testimony whereof have hereunto set my
| hand and caused the seal of the United States to
be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this 5th day of
July in the year of Lord, 1864 and of the indie
| pendence of the United States, the SSth.
Signed, ABRAHAMLINC0LN.
WIN. Ii. SEWARD, Sec'y Of State.