The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-07-07
PROCLAMATION.
MARITAL LAW DECLARED
8 IN KENTUCKY!
The Writ Of Habeas Corpus
Suspended,
= APrOclamatiOn-..by the Pres
ident Of the United States
WAsHMeToN, July 6, 1864

! vas issued on the 18th day of April, 1861
the President of the United States OF
/ America directs that the laws of the Unit>
Cd States had been declared for some time
past, aud then were, opposed, and the exc,
cntion thereof obstrueted in certain States
therein mentioned, by combinations too
powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary
course of judicial proceedings, and by the
powsr vested in the msrsbals by law; and,
| WHEREAS, Immediately after the issuing
of the said proclamation, the land and naval
forces Of the United States we're put into
activity to suppress the said instruction
and rebellion; and,
WHEREAS, The Congress Of the United
States, by an act approved on the third day
Of March, 1863, did enact that during the
ssid rebellion the President of the United
States, whenever, in his judgment, the
public safety may require, is authorized to
suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas
corpus, in any case, throughout the United
States, or any part thereof; and, l.4
WHEREAS, The military forces of the
United States, are now actively engaged in
suppressing said insurrection and rebellion,
In various parts of the states, where said
rebellion has been successful in obstructing
the laws and authorities, especially in
the States of Virginia and Georgia; and,
WHEREAS, On the 18th day of September
hst, the President of the United States
duly issued his proclamation, wherein be
declared that the privilege Of the writ Of
hdbeas corpus should be suspended in the
United States, in cases where, by the au
hority 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 as prisoners of war, spies, or aiders
or abettors of the enemy, or officers, sol
diers or seamen, enrolled or drafted, or
mustered or enlisted, or belonging to the
land or naval forces of the United States,
Or rs deserters therefrom or otherwise
amenable to military law, or the rules and
Articles of war, or the rules and regulations
prescribed for the military or naval seryi>
ces, by authority of the President of the
United States, or for resisting a draft, or
for any other offence against the military
or naval service; and,
WHEREAS, Many citizens of the State of
Kentucky have joined the forces of the in
surgents, have, on several occasions, entered
the said State Of Kentucky in large force,
and not without lad and comfort furnished
by disaffected and disloyal citizens of the
United States, residing ther>in, not only
greatly disturbed the public peace, but
have overborne the civil authorities, and
made fragrant civil war, destroying property
and life in various parts of that State.
WHEREAS, it has been made known TO
the President OF the United States, and the
officers commanding National armies, that
combinations have been formed in said
State of Kentucky, with purpose of incit
ing the rebel forces to renew the said oper-
atoms of civil war, within said State, and
thereby to embarass the United States
armies new operating in said states ofYirs
ginia and Georgia, and even to endanger their
safe ty.
Now therefore, Abraham Lincoln, Pres.
ident of the United States, by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the Cons titution
and Laws, do hereby declare that in my
Judgment the public safety especially res
quires that suspension Of the privilege oi
the writ of habeas corpus so proclaimed in
said proclamation of the 18th of September,
1863, be made effectual and be duly enforced
in. and throughout the said State OF Ken
lucky, and that martial law be for the pres
ent declared therein.
| lido, therefore, and hereby require of the
military officers in the said state that the
privileges of the writ of habeas cIrpus be
efectualIy suspended within said states
according to the aforesaid Proclamation
and that marshal law be established there's
in to take effect from date Of the Proclama'
tba. The said Suspension and establish
ment of Marshal law to combined until this
Proclamation shall be revoked or modified
but not beyond the period, where said re>
beIlion shall have been suppressed or come
to an end, and, do hereby require snd
command, as well as military officers, as all
civil officers and authorities, existing OF
found within said state of Kentucky, to
take notice of the Proclamation and to give
full effect to the same. The martial law
herein proclaimed, and the things in that
respect herein ordered, will not be deemed
or taken to interfere with the holding oi
|. lawful elections, or with the proceedings oi
the constitution OF Legislative OF Kentucky,
or With the Administration of justice In the
courts of law exissing therein, between
citizens of the United Statesin suits or pro-
ceedings which do not effect the military
offenders or the Constitution authorities oi
the port of the United States. 81.
| In testimony wereof, have hereunto set
nv hand caused the seal of the United
,, States to be afi xed. Due At the city oil
Washington, this 5th day Of July, in the
year of our Lord 1864, and OF the Inde.
pendence Of the United States the 8sth
/ By the Ptesident,
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
". H. SEWARD, Sec'y. State.