Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1864-07-13
A PROCLAMATION

A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, By a proclamation, which
was issued or the 18th day of April,
1861, the President of the United States
announced and declared that the laws of
the United States had been for some time
past, and then were, opposed. and the
execution thereof obstructed in certain
States therein mentioned by combinations
too powerful to be suppressed by the ordi-
nary course of judicial proceedings, or by
the power vested in the marshal law;
And UhereaS, Immediately after the
issuing of the said proclamation the land
and naval forces of the United States
were put into activity to suppress the said
insurrection and rebellion.
And a0hereas, The Congress Of the
United States, by an act approved on the
3D. day Of March, 1868, did enact that
during the said rebellion the President of
the United States, whenever in his judg-
ment the public safety may require it, is
authorized to suspend the privilege Of the
writ of h0beaS corpus in any case through
ont the United States, or any part there
Of
And iohcreas, the said insurreclion and
| rebellion still continue, endangering the
existence of the Constitution and the Go
vernment of the United States.
And whereas, The military forces of
the United States are now actually en-
gagged in suppressing the said insurrcction
| and rebellion in various parts of the States
where the said rebellion has been success
ful in obstructing the laws and public au-
thorities, especially in the States of Vir-
ginia and Georgia.
And whereas, on the fifteenth day OF
! September last, the President of the
| United States duly issued his procIama-
/ ton, wherein he declared that the privi-
| lege Of the writ of habcas corpus should
| be suspended 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 per-
! sons under their command or in thcil
custody, either as prisoners of war, spies,
or aidcrS or abettorS of the enemy, or Off
GERS, soldiers or seamen, enrolled or draft
ed or mustered or enlisted in, or belonging
to the land or naval forces of the United
States, or as deserterS therefrom or other
wise amenablc to military law or the rules
and articles of war, or the rules and reru-
lations prescribed for the military or nava
( services by authority of the President o.
the United States, or for resisting a draft
or for any other offence against the mill.
! tary or naval service.
And whereas, many citizens of the
State Of Kentucky have joined the force:
/ of the insurgents have on several occa.
sions entered the said State of Kentuck,
in large force, and not without aid anC
comfort furnished by disaffected and dis.
loyal citizens of the United States resi-.
ding therein, have not only greatly dis
turbed the public peace, but have over.
borne the civil authorities. and made fla.
grant civil war, destroying property ant
life in various parts of the State
And whereas it has been made knowr
to the President of the United States, by
the officers commanding the national ar
mics, that combinations have been formed
in the said State of Kentucky, with {
purpose of melting the rebel forces to re-
new the said operations of civil wal
within the said State, and thereby TO EN-.
barrass the United States armies now op.
Grating in the said States of Virginia and
Georgia, and even to endanger then
safety.
Now therefore /. Abraham Lincoln
President of the United States, by virtue o
the authority vested in me by the Consti.
tuition and laws, do hereby declare that ir
my judgement the public safety especially
requires that the suspension of the privi-
lege of the writ of ha6eas corpus, so pro-
claimed in the said proclamation of the
18th OF September, 1868, be made eff
fectual, and be duly enforced in and
throughout the said State of Kentucky,
and that martial law be for the present
declared therein. L do, therefore, hereby
require of the military officers in the said
State that the privileges of the writ OF
ha6eas corpus be effectually suspended
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 establishment of mar
tial law to continue until the proclamation
shall be revoked or modified, but not be-