The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-09-08

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VIcKsBURG, Aug a, 1865.
General Orders No. %.
The attention of District Command
era ia called to Proclamation of the
Provisional Governor OF the state Of
Mississippi of the 10Th inst, which pro-
vides for the organization OF military
force in each county in the State
While the General Government
deems It necessary to maintain ITS
authority here by armed forces, 1t Is
important that the powers and duties
of the officers commanding should De
clearly defined
The State of Mississippi was one OF
the first that engaged in the recent re-
bellion. For more than four years all
her energies have been devoted to a
war upon our Government At length,
from exhaustion, she has been com
PEELED to lay down her arms; but no
orders have as yet been received by the
military authorities on duty here, indi
eating that the State has been relieved
from the hostile position which she vol
UNFAIRLY assumed towards the United
States.
The General Government, earnestly
desiring to restore the state to its for
mer position, has appointed a Provls'
ional Governor, with power to call
Convention for the accomplishment OF
that purpose. Upon the military forces
devolve the duties of preserving order
and of executing the laws of Congress
and the orders of the War Department
The orders defining the rights and priv
! ileges to be secured to freedmen meet
/ with opposition in many parts OF the
| State and the duties devolVing upon
military officers, in the execution OF
these orders, are often Of delicate
nature. 1t has certainly been the de-
sire Of the Department Commander
and, SO far as he has observed, of all
officers on duty in the State, TO execute
/ these orders IN a spirit of Cancellation
! and forbeaTance; and, while obeying
| implicitly all instructions OF the Presi-
dent and the War Department, 10 make
| military rule as little odious as possible
to the people. While the military au-
! thorities have acted in this spirit, and
have been as successful a. could have
been anticipated, the Provisional Gov
ernor has thought proper, without con
sultstion with the Department COM
mander, OF with any other officer OF
the United States on duty here, to Or
gauize and arm force in every county,
urging the young men Of the State
who have so distinguished themselves
for gallantyy," to respond promptly To
his call meaning, thereby, that class
of men who have a. yet scarcely laid
down the arms with which they have
been opposing our Government Such
force, if organized, Is TO be independent
Of the military authority now present
and superior in strength to the United
States forces on duty IN the State 1o
| permit the yoang men, who have So
distinguished themselves, 20 be armed
and organized Independently Of United
States military officers on duty here
and to allow them to operate 10 cOun
ties not garrisoned by colored troops
filed, as many Of these men are, not
only with prejudice against those
troops, and against the execution Of
the orders relative TO freedmen, but
even AGAINST our Government itself
would Sring about 3 collision at once
and increase in a ten-foid degree the
difficulties that nov beset the people
/ Il is 10 be hoped that the day will SCOT
come when the young men called upor
by Governor Sharkey and the colorec
men now serving the United State
VIII zeAloosly cooperate for the pre-
servstion Of order and the promotion o
the interests Of the State and nation
II VIII be grstifyiBgto theiTiends o. IA
ooiored race to have the ASSURANCE u
IN official Proclamation nom the Fro
visional Governor, that the day has al
ready arrived when the experiment car
safely be attempted But as the cues
tons on which these two classes viii b
! called 70 cooperate are those with re
. esrd 10 which there would undQubted
" Be some difference 81 opinion par