Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1864-07-15

fhUCI4AMAIiON.
Whereas- BY Proclamation which was issued
on the 18th day Of April 1861, the President Of
the United States announced and declared that
the laws Of the United States had beck for some
time past, and then We're, opposed, and the exc
cutlon thereof obstructed in certain States there
IN mentioned by combinations too powerful to be
suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial pro-
ceedings, or by the power vested in the Marshals
by law and @
WjiereQs, 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 instructions and rebellion; and
lFhereas.f The Congress of the United States,
by an act approved on the third day Of March
1868 did enact that during the said rebellion the
PRESIDENT OF the United States, whenever in his
judgment the public safety may require IT. is atl-
thorized to suspend the privilege Of the writ Of
habeas corpus, in any case throughout the United
States, or any part thereof; and
WhereQs, The said insurrecton and rebellion
still continue, endangcring the existence of the
Constitution and Government of the Unitod
States and
ElereGs, The military forces of the United
States are now actively engaged in suppressing the
sad nsllrrectlon and rebellion, in various parts of
the States where the said rebellion has been sue
cesstul IN obstrIctng the laws and public author-
ties, especially in the States of Virginia and GeoT
gia.
Ffhefc0S, TN the bftaenth day OF September.
last. the President Of the United States duly is
sued his proclamation, wherein he declared that
the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus should
be suspended throughout the United States in
cases whereby the authority of the President of
the United States, the military naval aud 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 abet
tois OF the enemy, or officers, soldiers or seaman
enrolled or drafted or mustered or enlisted In or
belonging to the land or naval forces of the United
States, or as deserters therefrom or otherwise
amendable to military law or the rules and articles
OF war or the rules and regulations prescribed for
the military on naval services by authority of the
President of the United States or for resisting a
draft, or fer any other offence against the military
or naval service; and,
lfhereaS, many citizens of the State of Ken
lucky have joined the forces of the insurgents
have several occasions entered the said State Of
hentuckg in large force, and not without aid and
comfort furnished by disafeeted and disloyal citi
not only greatly disturbed the public peace,
but have oVerborne the civil authorities and
made fragrant civil war. destroying property and
life inyarious parts of that State, aud
Whereds, It has been made known To the Presi-
dent of the United States, by officers co1nrnandA Ag
the National armies, that combinations have been
formed IN the said State Of Kentucky with ptIf-
pose of melting the Rebel forces to renew the said
operations OF civil war within the said State, and
therefore to a3Iharrass the United States armies
now operating in the said States of Virginia and
Georgia, and even TO endanger their safety
Now therefore, | ABRAHAM LINCOLN Presi-
dent Of the United States by virtue of the au-
thority vested In me by the Constitution and laws
do hereby declare that, in my Judgment, the pub
lie safety especially requires that the suspension
of the privilege of the writ of hdbeds corpus, so
proclaimed in the said proclamation of the 9TH of
September, 1888, be made effectual, and be duly
enforced in and throughout the said State of Ken
lucky, and that martial law be for the present de-
clared therein / do, therefore, hereby require of
the military officers in the said State that the
privilege of the habeas corpus be efiect1ally sus-
pended within the said State, according TO the
aforesaid proclamation, and that martial law be
established therein to take effect from the date of
this proclamation, the said suspension and estab-
lishment of martial law to continue until this proc
lamation shall be revoked or modified, but not be-
yond the period when the said rebellion shall have
been suppressed or come to an end. And | do
hereby require ana command as well as military
officers 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
to the same. The martial laws herein proclaimed
and the things l that respect herein ordered viii
not be deemed or taken to interfere with the
holding Of lawful elections or with the pro-
eeedings of the Constitutional Legislature of Ken
lucky, or with the administration of Justice in the
courts of law existing therein between citizens of
the United States in suits or proceedings which
do not effect the military operations or the con-
stituted authorities Of the Government Of the
United States
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand aud 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 our Lord 1864,
and Of the Independence of the United States the
eighty-eighth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President:
WILLIAM H SEWARD, Secretary of State.