Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-07-14
Martial Law i'm Kentueky.
By the President Of the United States of America
A PROCLAMATION.

L IestotItt % Onlred StdteS of
/ PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS, By the proclamation which was issued
on the 10th day of April 1861, the President of the
United States announced and declared that the
laws of the United States had beeu for some time
pat and then opposed, and the execution
thereof INSTRUCTED in certain States therein men
| tioned by combinations too powerful to be sup
| pressed by the ordinary course of judicial pro
ceedipgs, by the power vested in the Marshal by
law and - . 81 s- .. .....-
WHEREAS, hmm ediately after the issuing of the
said proclamation, the land and naval forces of thu
United States were put into activity to suppress
the said instruction and rebellion, and
WHEREAS, The Congress of the UDited 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, ~henever in his judg
ent the public safety may require it, is authorize
to suspended the privilege of the writ of habea
corpus in any case throughout the United State
any part thereof, and s.- ..E..-....-.-e~
WHEREAS, The said instruction and rebellion
still continues, endangeriug the existence of tht
Constitution of the government of the United
States, and
WHEREAS, AS the military forces OF the United
States now actively engaged in suppressing said
insurrection and rebellion in various parts of the
States where the said rebellion has been success stu
in obstructing the laws and public authorities es
peciay in the States of Virginia and Georgia and
WHEREAS, On the 18th day of September last the
President of the United States duly issued his
proclamation wherein he declared that the privi.
iIege of the writ of habeas corpus should be sus
| pended throughout the United States in cases
| whereby the authority of the President of the
| TTuTf mill
of the United States, or any of them, hold persons
under their command or in their custody, either
as prisoners of war, spies or aders or abet-
tors of the enemy, or officers, soldiers, or
seamen, enrolled, drafted or mustered in
! or enlisted or belonging to the land or naval
forces of the United States, or as deserers there
from, otherwise smenable to military law or the
rules and articles of war, the rules and regula-
tions prescribed for the military or naval services
by the authority of the President of the United
States, for resisting draft, for any other Of
fence against the military or naval service; and
whereas, many citizens OF the State of Kentucky
have. joined the forces of the insurgents, and
have several occasions entered said state o
Kentucky in large force, and without aid Oh
comfort furnished by disafected and disloyal citi
zens of the United States residing there, have nc
borne the civil authorities and made fragrant civil
war, destroying property and life in various parts
that state; and, whereas, it has been made known
to the esident 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 ncitin, rebcl forces to re-
the said operations of civil war THU said state
and thereby to embarrass the United States armies
nv tipu in said
and even to endanger their safety,
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 habeas corpus, so pro-
claim ed in the said proclamation of the 18th OF
September, 1862 be made efeetual and be duly
enforced in and throu ghout 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
fcers in the said State that the privileges of tn,
| Writ of Habeas Corpus be effect ualy SUSPENDED
within the said State, according to the aforesaid
proclamation, and that IN artial law be established
to take effect from the date oil this proclamation
| The said suspension and establishment of IN ar
be revoked or modified, but not beyond the period
when the said rebellion shall have been suppressed
| or come to an end. 49,
+ And L do hereby require and command as wei
military all civil officers and authorities existing
or found within the said state of Kentucky to take
notice of this proclamation, and TO give full effect
the same and the martial law herein proclaim d.
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 con-
stitutiona legislature of Kentucky, or with the ad
minisration of justice in the courts of law existing
therein between citizens of the United States in
suits proceedings which do not affect the militia
ry operations the constituted authorities of the
Govern N ent Of the United States. ....rf
In testimony whereof l 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 Inde-
pendence of the United States, the SSth. jig .-
Sigued a@---a~ ABRAHAMLINC0LN.
VIM H. SEWARD. Sec'y of State. =