The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1866-04-12

Congress, banishing all feeling of mere
passion or resentment, will recollect only
Its duty 10 the whole country that this
war Is not prosecuted on our part In any
spirit OF oppression nor for any purpose of
conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of
oVerthrowlng or interfering with the
rights or established institutions of those
States, but to defend and maintain the
supremacy of the Constitution and all
laws made In pursuance thereof, aud to
preserve the Union with all the dignity,
equality, and rights of the several States
unlmpalred that as soon as these objects
are accomplished the war ought to cease"
And whereas, these resolutions, though
not JOINT or concurrent In form, are sub
Stantlally identical, and as such may be
regarded as having expressed the sense of
Congress upon the subject to which they
relate;
baI9'L ,r .ereas, by my proclamation OF
.Ie io'h IL uay OF julio i-s+ the iusurraot;o,
I'D the State OF Tennessee ,,,s JooI.,roJ
to have been suppressed, the antbnr,tn -
tue united States therein to be undi.r,:,.I
ana such officers as had been dpIv cor, -
stoned TO be in the undisputed exercrs" =
their official functions
And whereas, there now exists no
organized armed resistance of misguided
cltizens or others to the authority of the
United SCates in the States OF Georgia,
South Carolina, Virginia, North Carolina,
Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana. Arkansas,
Mississippi, and Florida, and the laws can
be sustained and enforced therein by the
proper civil authority, State or Federal,
aud the people Of the said States are we'll
aud loyalty disposed, and have couformed
or Will conform in their Legislation to the
condition of affairs growing out of the
amendment to the Constitution Of the
United States, prohibiting slavery within
the limits aud jurisdiction of the United
States s.usse
Aud whereas, in view of the before
reclted premises, it is the manifest deter
mlnatlon OF the American people that no
State, OF Its own will, has the right or che
power to 90 out OF, or separate itself from,
or be separated from the American Union,
and that therefore each State ought to
remain and constitute an integral part o.
the United STATES
Aud whereas, the people of the several
before mentioned States have, In the man
ner aforesaid, given satisfactory evidence
that they acquieScc in this sovereign and
important resolution of national unity;
And whereas, it is believed to be a
fundamental principle of government that
people who have revolted, and who have
been overcome and subdued, must either
be dealt with so. as to induce them volun-
tarily to become friends, or else they must
be held by absolute military power, or
devastated, so as to prevent them from ever
again doing harm as enemies, which last
named policy is abhorrent to humanity
and freedom
Aud whereas, the Constitution of the
United St(tes provides for constituent
communities only as States aud not as
Territories, dependencies, provinces, or
! protectOrates
And whereas, such constituent States
must necessarily be, and by the Constitu-
ton and laws of the United States are
made equals and placed upon a like footing
as to political rights, immunities, dignity,
and power, wiTh the several States with
which they are united;
And whereas, the observance Of polit-
ical equality as a principle Of right and
justice Is we'll calculated to encourage the
| people of the aforesaid States to be and
| become more and mere constant and per
severing in their renewed allegiance
And whereas, standing armies, military
occupation, martial law, military tribunals,
and the suspension of the privilege of the
writ Of hdbeaS corpus are, In time of peace,
dangerous to public liberty, Incompatible
with the individual rights Of the citizen,
/ n the md Of
| free institutions, and exhaustive of the
national resources, and ought not, there
/ fore, to be sanctioned or allowed except
in eases of actual necessity, fer repelling
| invasiou or suppressing lnsurrection or
rebellion;
And whereas, the policy of the Gov
ernment of the United States, from the
beginning Of the insurrectiOn to its over
throw and final suppression, has been in
conformity with the principles herein set
forth and enumerated
Now, therefore, /, Andrew johnson,
President Of the United States, do hereby
proclaim and declare that the iDsurrectioD
which heretofore existed in the States of
Georg ia. South Carolina, Virginia, North
| Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana,
Arkansas, MlSSl5slppl, anu CloTlua Is at
an end and is heuceiorth to he SO regarded.
In testimony whereof, have hereunto
set my hand, and caused the Seal of the
| United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, the
second day of April, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-six, and of the Independence OF the
United States of America the ninetieth
ANDREW JOHNSON.
Rv the President E