Washington telegraph., 1865-06-28

eAPefience OF their nnanclal ABILITY from
hope to confidence, and the cautious
4 moderation of our calculations show that,
early and easily, THE NATIONAL
DEBT CAN BE PAID. H .
Il
I VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA
The President, by Proclamation, has
provided for the restol alton of the Fed
eral aud State authorities in both these
States. In the former, Gov. Pierpont
has been recognized as the proper Gov
ernor of the whole State, and authorized
to extend over it the already organized
civil authority of Western Virginia. We
were under the impression, perhaps erro
neously, that Western Virginia had been
admitted bv metes and bounds into the
Union as a separate State IF mistaken
in this, we will rejoice to find the old
mother of States restored to her terri
torial integrity.
The provision for the re-erganization
\ of State Government in North Carolina
will give universal satisfaction. and will
no doubt, be followed in other Southern
States. 1t is as follows:
Whereas, The rebellion, which has
been waged by portion of the people
of the United States against the properly
constituted authorities of the govern
ment thereof in the most violent and re-
voting fern, but whose organized and
armed forces have now been almost en-
tire y overcome, has. in its revolutionary
progress, deprived the people of the
State of North Carolina of all civil gov
ernment and,
Whereas, 1t becomes necessary and
proper to carry out and enforce the obli-
cations of the United States to the people
of North Carolina in securing them in
the enjoyment of republican form of
government,
Now, therefore. in obedience to The
: high and solemn duties imposed upon
me by the Constitution of the United
States, and for the purpose of enabling
the loyal people of said State to organize
a State government, whereby justice may
be established. domestic tranquility in
E sured, and loyal citizens protected in all
their rights of life, liberty and property.
/. Andrew Johnson, President uf the
United States and Commander Chief
of the Army and Navy of the United
States, do hereby appoint William W.
Holden Provisional Governor of the State
of North Carolina. whose duty it shall
be, at the earliest practical period, to
prescribe such rules and regulations as
may be necessary and proper for con-
vening convention, composed Of dele
gates TO he chosen by that portion Of the
: people of ssid State who are loyal to the
United States, and no others, for the pur-
pose of altering or amending the Consti-
tuition thereof and with authority TO ex-
ercise within the limits Of said State all
the powers necessary and proper TO enable
such loyal people of the State of North
Carolina to restore said State TO its con-
stitutional relations to the Federal Gov
ernment and to present such a renubli-
can form of State government as will en-
title the State to the guarantee of the
United States therefor, and its people to
protection by the United States against
invasion, insurrection and domestic vio-
: lence: Provided that in any election that
may be hereafter held for choosing dele
gates to any State Convention, as afore-
said, no person shall be qualified as an
eleetor, or shall be eligible SIS member
of such convention, unless he shall have
previously taken and subscribed to the
oath or amnesty as set forth in tho Presi-
dents Proclamation Of May 90. 1865,
: and is voter qualified rs prescribed by
the constitution and laws of the State of
North Carolina in force Immediately be-
fore the goth day of May, A. d. 1861,
the date of the so-called ordinance Of Sc
cession; and the said convention, when
convened, or the Legislature that may
be thereafter assembled, will prescribs
the qualifications of electors and the
eligibility of persons to hold office under
the constitution aud laws of the State
a power the people of the several States
composing the Federal Union have right
fully exercised from the origin of the
E government to the present time. And I
do hereby direct ia
First-That the military commander
Of the department, and all officers and
persons in the military and naval service,
aid and assist the said Provisional Gov
ernor in carrying inte effect this procla-
nation; and they are enioined to abstain
from in any way hindering. impcdinc or
discouraging the loyal people from the
organization of State government as
herein authorized
| Then follow provisions for the ap-
pointment of officers by the heads Of the
several departments for the execution Of
the Federal laws, the re-cstablishment of
f Federal Courts. Post Offices, &c This
: is also done in Virginia
& BURKE on CIVIL WAR-What tho
great statesman and orator of England.
Edmund Burke said in Parliament. when
it was proposed in England in lT76 to
try Americas prisoners for treason, may
have some value now. On that occasion
he thus expressed himself: 9-i iaai s4al,9l
! ."Warris at present carried on between
the Kings natural and foreign troops, on
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