The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1865-07-05
by the President
Appointment of Provisional
Governor for Alabama.
Proclamation by the President Of the Una
ted States of Anaerica:

ted States of america:
WHEREAS, The fourth section OF the
fourth article of the Constitution of the
United States declares that the United
States shall guarantee to every State In
the Union republican form of Govern
ment, and shall protect each of them
against invasion and domestic violence;
and
WHEREAS, The President Of the Uni
ted States is, by the Constitution, made
Commander in Chief of the Army and
Navy, as we'll as chief civil executive of
icer of the United States, and is bound
by solemn oath faithfully to execute the
office of President of the United States,
ly executed; and
WHEREAS, The rebellion which has
been waged by portion of the people OF
the United States against the properly
constituted authorities of the Government
thereof, in the most violent and revolving
form, but whose organized and armed for
ces have now been almost entirely over
come, has in its revolutionary progress
deprived the people of the State Of Ala
bama of all civil government and
WHEREAS, It becomes necessary to
carry out and enforce the obligations of
the United States to the people Of Ala
bama in securing them in the enjoyment
of a 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 State
Government, whereby justice may be es-
tablished, domestic tranquility restored
and loyal citizens protected in all their
rights of life. liberty and property, I,
Andrew johnson, President of the United
States ana Commander-in- Chief of the
Army and Navy of the United States, do
hereby appoint Lewis e. Parsons, of AL
ALBANIA, Provisional Governor of the State
of Alabama, whose duty it shall beat the
earliest practical period, to prescribe such
rules and regulations as may be necessary
and proper for convening q convention,
composed of delegates to be chosen by
that portion of the people of said State
who are loyal to the United States, and
no others, for the purpose of altering or
amending the Constitution thereof; and
with authority TO exercise, within the lin
its Of said State, all the powers necessary
and proper to enable such loyal people of
the State of Alabama to restore said State
to its constitutional relations to the Fed
erai Government, and to present such a
republican form of State government as
will entitle 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 held hereafter for choosing
delegates to any State Conventions as
aforesaid, no person shall be qualified as
an olector, or shall be eligible as mem
Der of such Convention, unless he shall
have previously taken and subscribed the
osth of amnesty, as set forth in the Pres
idents proclamation of May 20, A. D.,
1865, and is voter qualified as prescrib-
ed by the Constitution and laws of the
State of Alabama, in force Immediately
before the 18th day of January, A. d.
1861. the date of the so-called ordinance
of secession. And the said Convention,
when convened, or the Legislature that
may be thereafter assembled, will pre-
scribe the qualifications of elector and the
eligibility of persons to hold Office under
the Constitution and laws of the State-a
power the people of the several States
composing the Federal Union have right
ly exercised from the origin Of the Gov
ernment to the present time.
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THere follow the instructions to the
heads of the different departments, which
are precisely similer to those provided for
the States of North Carolina, Mississippi,
Texas and Georgia.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed. Done at the
city of Washington this twenty-frst of
June, in the year of our Lord one thous-
and eight hundred and sixty-fye, and of
the independence of the United States
the eighty ninth.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
By the President:
WIN. H. SEWARD. See. Of State.
A Good Point.