Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-07-13
Martial Law I'm Kentucky.
By the President Of the United States Of America
PROCLAMATION.

By the President Of the United States Of America
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS, By the proclaim alton which was issued
on the 10Th day of April 1891 the President Of the
United States announced and declared that the
laws of the United States had been for some time
pat and then were opposed, and the execution
thereof DISTRACTED in certain States therein men
toned, by combinations too powerful TO be sup
pressed by the Ordinary course of Judicial pro
eeedings, as BY tie power vested in the Marshal by
law; aud
WHEREAS, Immediately after the issuing OF the
said pro clam alton the land and naval forces of the
United States were put into activity to suppress
the said insurrection and rebellion, and
WHEREAS, Thr Congress of the United States by
act approved the third day of March, 1895,
did enact that during the said rebellion the Pres
dent OF the United States, whenever in his judg
ment the public safety may require it, is authorze Ell
to suspended the privilege OF the wit of habeas
corpus in any case throughout the United States
or 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
WHEREAS, AS the la.!:;sry forces of the United
States actively engaged in suppressng said
insurrection and rebellion in various parts of the
in obstr ucting the laws and public authorities,
pecslly in the States of Virginia and Georgia zri
WHEREAS, On the 18th day of September last the
President of the United States duly issued his
proclamation wherein he declared that the privi-
Iege of the writ of habeas corpus should be
/ pended throughout the United States in cases
whereby the authority of the President of the
United States, the military, naval and civil officers
OF the United States or any of them, hold persons
under their command or in their custody, either
| prisoners of war, spies aiders abet
/ tors of the enemy, officers, soldiers,
seamen, enrolled, drafted mustered in
or enlisted belonging to the land naval
forces of the United States, deserters there
| from, otherwise amenable to military law the
rules and articles of war, the rules and regula-
lions prescribed for the military 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 on several occasions entered said state of
| Kentucky in large force, and without aid or
comfort furI isbed by disaected and dSloyal eiti-
of the United States residing there, have not
/ only disturbed the public peace, but have over
! borne the civil authorities and made fragrant civil
7ar destroyir property and life in various parts
that state; anu, whereas, II has been made known
| to the Pres ide,t of the United States by the
officers commando the National armies, that COM
binations have been formed Ia said State OF Ken
lucky with purpose # melting rebel forces to re-
new the said operations civil within said
and thereby to embarrass the United States a1mies
by operating in said states of Virginia and Georgia
| ard to endanger their safety,
| Now, Tier efoIe, /, Abraham Lincoln, President
of the United Ststes, by virtue of the authority
vested in me by tbs Constitution and laws, dc
! hereby declare that il ny judgment the public
safety especially requires that the suspension OF
the privilege of the writ of hG5eas corpus, pro
| claim ed in the said proclamation OF the 18th OF
September, 1868, be made effeetUal, aud be duly
enforced in and thro ughout the ssd State Of Ken
tucky, and that martial law be for tbs present de
| elared therein.
/ DO therefore hereby require of the military oil
feer8 IN the said State, that the privileges of tht
Writ o. Habeas Corpus be effectually suspended
within the zaid State, according the aforesai,
proclamation, and that artial law be established
! to take effect from the date o; this proclamation.
The said suspension and establishment of mar
tial law to continue until this proclamation shall
be revoked modified, but not beyond the perio,
when the said rebellion shall have been suppressed
| or come TO end.
And L do hereby require and command, as vel
military as all civil officers and authorities existing
or found within the said state of kentucky to TAX
notice of this proclamation and to give full enec
to the same and the martial law herein proclaimed
and the things in that respect herein ordered vii
not be deemed taken to interfere with. the hold
ing of elections with the proceedings of the
sttutional legislature of Kentucky, with the adj
mnistraion of Justice in the courts OF law existing
| therein between citizens Of the United States, il
suits or proceedings which do no. affect the militia
ry operations or the constituted authorities Of tbs
! Government of the United States.
| In testimony whereof l have hereunto set my
| hand and caused the seal of the United States to
4 be aft ed.
Done at the city of Washington this 5th day Of
July in the year of Lord 1864, and OF the
/ pendeuce of the United States, the SSth
| Signed, ABRAaAMLINCOLN.
| WIN II. SEWARD, Sec'y OF State.