Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-07-20
I Ian ior the Re-4dmissien of the So.o..,
stateS.-PrGeiamatien of the psae;IS .eoeu

Us St., " Aomi>>ten OF the Sefad
u oes'@Pfeeiamatien Of the President
" WHERE'S A. the late session ,o,,s-
u III % guarantee te certain statee go PASSED
liam ga eeen usurPed or orerthrown. rem
unto annexed: and : opJ q which is her
p,esident 81 The In sad bin was presented to II
snah an hour before the si;- pI-ovaI LEI
- WHsBEs' ana ana vas not signed by him. ana
Il .nings plan for restoring tb auoI othe
Il ebirb proper Practical relation in - Je.noi
HI that subject and the sense of Congress M or
NJ -S sne Peopie for their eonsiderstf5I III e
Of tbs '5Ty n,. l Abraham Lincoln. pras,,a
'ie United states, do proclaim dri lesi'tea a,
llaAe SHOWN that, while / am as vs. oeeaEe and
; nan - e. @itsn 4E proclamation propoupdsd .
prof a. q TINS bill, to be inhexibIy eom,i., ap-
~5r $50 pan OF res torstioa and while am 40
prepared to declare that the free state ca-.9.o
Ha so{ernmeots already adopted ana = =; d
u. arkansas and Louisiana shan - M ~
tions ''- ioF naught, thereby repelling and
staLied l.. al citizens who have Get M
4a.ae, @n9 u sl Effort or TO declare consfi
Is S us - congress to abolish slavery
tutioual competence l.. ops,s..,. 10 sincerely
IN the States bvt am a. institutional amend
hoping aud expecting thatac ao4t the nation
ment aboIishfng slavery throu. July satisfied
may be adopted, nevertheless I am u Ia the
with the system for restoration contain. Np4e OF
bill, as one very proper for the loyal Pc al
any State choosing to adopt it, and and =.
and assistance 70 any such people so soon, as the 7
military resistance to the United States shall have
thereof shall have sufficiently returned to their
obedience Of the Constitution and laws Of the
United states, in which case Military Governors
viii be appointed, With directions to proceed ae-
cording to the bill
In testimony whereof, have hereunto set my
hand, and caused the seal OF the United States to
be affixed
Done the city of Washington this stb day of
July, in the year our Lord 1854, and of the in
pendence Of the United States the ssth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
BY the President
IL
TIE PLAN.
The plan above referred to, as adopted 10y
Congress and thus approved by the Presi-
dent, is liz substance as follows:
The bill as passed provides for the appoint
ment Of Provisional Governor for each reb-
Ell State, with pay and emoluments of Brig
adler General. Such Governor, SO soon as
the military resistance to the United States
shall have been suppressed in any such State,
and the people thereof shall have sufficient !
returned to their obedience to the Constitu-
ton and the laws of the United States, is to
direct the United States Marshal to enroll all
the male citizens of the United States resi-
dent IN the State, and to require of them the
oath of allegiance. In case majority of the
persons enrolled shall have taken the oath,
the Provisional Governor SHALL by proclama-
ton, invite the loyal people of the State TO
elect delegates TO Convention for the re-es-
adjustment of the State Government, citi-
zens who are in the military service to be al
lowed 10 vote at their headquarters for dele
gates. No person who has held office or vol
unfairly borne arms under the rebel usurpa-
| ton, is to be allowed to vote for delegate,
or serve delegate to the Convention The I
convention is required TO declare the sub ,
mission of the State to the Constitution ana l
laws of the United States and to incorporate /
in its Constitution provision DISTINGUISHING /
all who have held Offices except merely |
ministerial, or military below the grade Of
Colonel, under the usurped power 4 .
provision has been Incorporated prohibiting
involuntary servitude and guaranteeing uni /
yersal freedom, and provision forbldding
the recognition or payment of any debt Gre
ated or sanctioned by the usurped power.
| The people of the State are to vote for or
against the Constitution so framed, which, if !
adopted, shall be certified to the President,
who, after obtaining the assent of Congress, /
| shall recognize the Government so establish |
ed Senators, Representatives and Electors |
may be chosen from the date Of such recog-
milton, and not before. The Convention shall |
be dissolved if it refuses to re-establish the /
State Government upon the above conditions, |
| but another may subsequently be called in !,
| the same manner. Until recognition by the |
| United States the Provisional Government /
in each State is to see to the execution of the /
| United States laws and those of the State |
| before it went into rebellion. save that those
relative to slavery shall not be enforced |
| Until recognition the Provisional Govern
ment is to assess and levy taxes, as they were |
| required to be levied in the last fiscal year |
! before the rebellion. All persons held to in /
| voluntary servitude in the rebel States are /
| declared forever free, and if restrained of /
| their liberty hereafter, to be discharged on
habeas corpus, the person convicted ofrestrain-
| ing them to be punished by heavy fine and |
| imprisonment. Every person hereafter hold |
| ing office, except those merely ministerial or |
| below the grade of Colonel, is declared not /
| to be a citizen of the United States.