Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1864-05-19
THE Bogus PROCLAMATION.

The bogus PROCLAMATION.
Inc ioiiewing Is the bogus proclamation Is.
sued In the New York World and Journal Of
Commerce yesterday. The internal evidence OF
its being forgery is so apparent that it is DIFF
ficnlt to imagine how it gained a moments
credence:
Four Hundred Thousand More ry..ns
Called For.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, May II, lS8i.-Fsllo.s-
Citisens Of the United States In all seasons az
exlseneits becomes nation carefully to
tcluunlze lis line OF conduct, humbly TO ap.
proacn the ThroIe OF Grace, and meekiy 70 ini-
p'ole iorelveness, wisdom and guidance.
a.sn.l u ~ asons known only to Him, it has been
OF unparalleled outrage and this nation. the
mcnumental sufferer of the nfueteenth ean.
tl1y: Win heavy heart, but an nndImin.
Eted conndence In our cause, | approach the
performance of duty ren dered irnperatiye bv
my sense of weakness before the Airaiehtv. and
OF justice to the people.
l. is not necessary that should tell you that
the first Virginia campaign under Lieutenant
General Grant, in whom / have every CONT
oehcs, and whose courage and fidelity the
people do well TO honor, is virtually closed
He has conducted his great enterprise with
discreet blity. He has inflicted great loss upon
the enemy. He has crippled their strength,
and defeated their plans.
In view, however, OF the situation In yir.
giDia, the disaster at Red river, the delay a.
Cha1leston, and the general state of the country,
1 Abraham Lincoln. dc hereby recommend
that Thursday, the twenty sixth Gay OF May,
a. d. ,o64, be solemnly set apart throughout
these United States as a day Of fasting, hunili-
aiioI, apG prayer. - SO.
Desming furthermore, that the present con-
d''ion Of public affairs presents an extraordi-
.nary cceas ion, and in vie of the Dr. nding ex-
piration of the service Of (iG0,0OO) one hundred
President of the Unirea State 5, Uy virtue OF Ins
power vested in me by the Constitution and
the laws, have thought fit to call forth, and
do hereby do call forth, the citizens Of the
United States between the ages OF (ls) eightsen
and (45) forty. five years 10 the aggregate mum.
Der OF (4OO,t OO) four hundred thousand, in ordse
10 suppress the existing rebellisus combtna-
tions, and to cause the due execution OF ne
laws. $50
And furthermore, IN case any state Or num-
sr OF states shall fail to furnish by the L5th
cay OF June next their assigned quotas, IL ID
hereby ordered that the same be raised by an
immediate and peremptory draft.
ne details for this object will be communi-
Gated to the state authorities through the War.
department. ''' t'-
IappeaI to all loyal citizens to favor, facili.
tate, and aid this effort to maintain the honor,
the integrity, and the existel ce OF our national
Union, and the perpetuity OF popular govern
ment
In witness whereof, have hereunto set my
hand, and caused the seal OF the United States
to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this sew
enteenth day of May. in the year OF
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty flour, and of the Independence
of the United States the eighty-eighth.
tS1gned) ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By The President:
WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary Of State.
An Explanation from " The World,
The following explanatory statement has
been issued from the Office Of the Rerld:
81 HE BOGUS PROCLAMATION OF PRKsIpBNr
LlNCoLN.-The World, in common with the
Journal Of Commerce and all the city morning
papers, was made the victim of malicious
hoax by some scoundrel, who, imitsting the
manifold copy of the Associated Press, sent
around the extraordinary proclamation which
appeared in our columns this morning Sup
posing it was all right published it in good
1aith and its falsity was not discovered until
the edition was nearly worked of. The World
does no. stereotype its forms as do several OF
the other morning papers, and as 1t Is now
working off.a very heavy edition daily, we are
compelled to 60 10 press at an unusuelly early
hour The Journal of Commerce was deceived
in the same way as the World, and of course
quite as innocently. The Herald, we under-
stand, printed the false proclamation in q large
edition. but fortunately for them, discoV Vered iS
in lime to suppress it in their regular edition.
We regret axcee dinghy the publication, as we
have just pride in publishing none but reli-
able news; but it is one of those fnexplicable
accidents which ia liable to happen A any
newspaper ablishment.