New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-04-04
TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCHES
THE PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION.
IFrom Yesterdaz,s Evening Papers. ]

WASHINGTON, April 2.-Whereas, By proc
lamations of the 18th and 10th of April, one thou
sand eight hundred and sixty the President Of
the United states, in virtue of power vested in
him by the Constitution and laws, declared that
the laws of the United States were opposed, and
the execution thereof obstructed in the States OF
sissippi, Louisiana and Texas, by combinations
too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary
course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers
vested in the Marshas by law;
/ And, whereas, BY another proclamation, made
the 10th day of August in the same year, in pnr-
suance of an act of Congress, approved July Is,
1861 the inhabitants of Georgia, South Carolina,
Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Louisana,
Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi and Florida, except
the Inhabitants Of that part of the State of Vir-
| gnia lying west of the Allegheny Mountains, or
each part of that State and the other States be
fore named as might maintain a loyal adhesion to
the Union and the Constitution, or might from
time to time be occupied and controlled by the
forces of the United States engaged in the disper-
| sion of insurgents who were declared to be in
state of insurrecton against the United States;
| And, whereas, By another proclamation of the
| first day of january, 1862 issued in pursuance of
act Of Congress, approved June Z, 1861 the insnr-
rection was declared to be still existing in the
States aforesaid with the exception of certain
specified counties in the State of Virginia; 2"'
And, whereas, By another proclamation made
on the second day of April, 1868, in pursuance of
the act of Congress of July 49, 1861 the exceptions
named in the proclamation of August l6, 1861,
were revoked, and as to the inhabitants of the
State of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina,
Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas,
Mississippi Florida and Virginia, except the forty
| eight counties of Virginia. designated as Western
Virginia, and the ports of New Orleans, Key West,
Port Royal and Beaufort, the insnrrecton was
declared to be still existing in the States afore
| said; '.r. ..-5
And, whereas, by another proclamation, made
on the second of April, 1868, in pursuance of an
act of Congress of July 18th, 1861, the exceptions
named in the proclamation of August 10th, 1861
were revoked, and the inhabitants Of the States Of
Georgia. South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennes
see, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mssis
sippi, Florida and Virginia, except the forty-egh
: counties of Virginia, designated as Western Vir
gnia, and ports of New Orleans, Key West, Port
Royal and Beaufort, s. c., declared to be il
a state OF insurrectlon against the United States
And whereas, The House of Representatives Oh
the 22d of July, 1861 adopted resolutions in the
following words, viz:
Resoloed by the House of Representatives. O
the Congress Of the United States, That the pres
ent deplorable civil war has been forced upon tn
country by the disunonists of the Southern States
| now in rebellion against the constitutional gov
: eminent, in arms around the capital that in th
: national emergency, Congress, banishng all feel
!, ings of resentment, will do only its duty to tn
+ Whole country; that this war is not waged on ou
part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any pu
h pose Of conquest or subjugation nor for the pul
n pose Of overthrowing or interfering with til
n established institutions of those States, but
d maintain and defend the supremacy of the Const
!; tuition, and preserve the Union, with all the dig
1t nifty equality and rights of the several States n
y impaired and as these objects are accomplishet
G the war ought to cease. .luF
VI And whereas, These resolutions, Though NJ
i joint or concurrent, form one substantially, ar
may be regarded as having expressed the views
q Congress upon the subject to which they relate.
d And, Whereas BY my proclamation of the l3
n OF June last the insurrectien in the State Of Tel
nessec was declared to have been suppressed al
the authority of the United States therein to be
D. disputed and such United States officers as hi
D. been duly commissioned to be in the undisput
IN exercise of their official functions;
l. And, whereas, There now exists no organize
III armed resistance of misguided citizens nor othe
to the authority of the United States in the stat
le of Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia. North Car
Id lima, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansa
e. Mississippi and Florida, and the law can pc pc SUI
tanned and enforced therein by the proper civ a. y,
thorty, State or Federal, and the people 81 u,
d. said States well and Loyalty disposed anu a"t
ait conformed or will conform in their legis'atoes
TX the condition of affairs growing out OF the 1ieno m
on ment to the Constitution of the Untea states, r.
rd hbitng slavery within the liml's anu 49,
ct, of the United States ., ,no;,a
&C. And whereas, In view of the before recl,e
- premises. il ia the manifest determination or H. IN
he American people that no state OF l1s o"m mia
et the right or power to go out or or lse
rn from or be separated from the American Unloi
and that each State ought to retain and constat
Id | m inteoral mart of the United states !; - -
0N And Whereas, The people OF the several befer
u rant;oped States have in the manner aforesai
no hnen constantly giving satisfactory evidence tha
IL thev acouiesce in this important resolution of tt
,d National Union;
No And whereas, 1t is believed to be the fund
he mental principle of the government that the pc
nd Die who have revoted, and who have been owe
M come and subdued, mnst be dealt with so as
in induce them virtually 10 become nlsnus, or ell
to they must be held by absolute military power,
it. as to prevent them from ever again doing harm
y enemies, which last named policy is abhorrent
60 humanity and freedom; r
at And whereas, The Constitution OF the Unit
States provides for constitutional coInmonweRli
lis only as States, and not as territories;
And whereas, such constitutional States Iii