American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-02-24

protection the laborer rests secure in his
rights. Incidence, disorder and crime
will be suppressed. Having exesised the
highest right in the choice and place OF
employment, he must be held to the full
fillment of his engagements until released
therefrom by the Government. The sew
eral Provost Marshals are hereby invested
with plenary powers upon all matters con-
nected with labor, subject to the approval
of the Provost Marshal General, and the
commanding officer of the Department.
The most favorable and discreet officers
will be selected for this duty, and the lar
gest force consistent with the public serv-
ice detailed for their assistance.
XXI Employers, and especially over
seers, are notified, that undue influence
used to move the Marshal from his Just
balance between the parties representing
labor and capital will result in immediate
change of officers, and thus defeat that.
regular and stable system upon which the
interests of all parties depend.
XXII Successful inlustry is especial
Unnecessary at the present time, when large
public debts and onerous taxes are impos-
ed to maintain and protect the liberties of
the people and the integrity of the Union.
All officers, civil or military, and all clas-
ses of citizens who assist in extending the
profits of labor, and increasing the pro-
ducts of the soil, upon which, in the end,
all national prosperity and power depend,
will re lder to the Government service as
great as that derived from the terrible sac
rifces of battle. 1t is upon such consid-
Grafton only that the planter is entitled to
favor The Government has accorded to
him, in a period ofanarchy, release from
the disorders resulting mainly from insen-
safe andmad resistance to sensible reforms,
which can never be rejected without revO-
luton, and the criminal surrender of his
interests and power to crazy politicians,
who thought by metaphysical distractions
toscircumvent the laws Of God. 1t has
restored to him in improved rather than
impaired condition his due privileges at a
moment when, by his own acts, the very
soil was washed from beneath his feet.
XNIIT. A more majestic and wise
clemency human history does not exhibit.
The liberal and Just conditions that attend
it cannot bedisrcgardcd, 1t protects la
Dor by enforcing the performance of its
duty, and it will assist capital by compel
ling Just contributions to the demands of
the Government. Those who profess al
legiance to other governments will be re-
quired, as the condition Of residence in
this State, to acquiesce, without reserva-
ton, in the demands presented by the Gov
ernmcnt as a basis of permanent peace
The non-cultivation of the soil, without
just reason, will be followed by temporary
Forfeiture to those who will secure its i'm
provement Those who have exercised,
or are entitled to the rights of citizens Of
the United States, will be required to par
ticipateiu the measures necessary for the
re-establisnment of civil governments
War can never cease except as civil gov
ernments crush out contest, and secure the
supremacy of moral over physical power.
The yellow harvest must wave over the
crimson feldo blood, and the representa-
tives of the people displace the agents of
purely military power.
XXIV. 1t is therefore solemn duty
resting upon all persons to assist in the
earliest possible restoration of civil gov
ernment. Let them participate in the
measures suggested for this purpose
Opinion is free and candidates are nu-
merous. Open hostility cannot be permit
ted. Indifference WILDE treated as crime,
and faction as treason Men who refuse
to defend their country with the ballot box
or cartridge box have no just claim to the
benefits Of liberty regulated by Jaw. All
people not exempt by the law of nations,
who seek the protection of the Govern
ment are called upon to take the oath of
allegiance in such form as may be prescrib
ed, sacrificing to the public good, and the
restoration of public peace, whatever scru-
pies may be suggested by incidental con-
siderations. The oath of allegiance, ad-
ministered and received in good faith, is
the test of unconditional fealty to the Gov
ernment and all its measures, and cannot
be materially strengthened or impaired by
the language in which it is clothed.
XIV. The amnesty offered for the past
is conditioned upon an unreserved loyalty
for the futnre, and this condition will be
enforced with an iron hand Whoever is
Indifferent or hostile must choose between
the liberty which foreign lands afford the
poverty of the rebel States, and the innu-
merable blessings which our Government
confers upon its people.
May God preserve the Union of the
States.
BY order of Maj. Gen. BANKS.
GEo. B. DRAKE, A. A. Gen.
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