Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-04-04

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OF HABEAs CoRrus.I
The War at an End.
THE PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION.
BY THE President OF THE UNITED


STATES-A PROCLAMATION.
WAsHINGToN, April 2.-WHEREAs, By
proclamation on the 18th and 10Th Of April,
1861, the President of the United States, in
virtue of the power vested in him by the
Constitution and the laws, declared that the
laws of the United States were opposed and
the execution thereof DISTRACTED in the
States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alaba-
ma, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and
Texas, by combinations too powerful to be
suppressed by the ordinary course of judi
cial proceedings, or blythe powers vested in
the Marshals by law; and
WHEREAS, By another proclamation,
made on the 10th day of August in the same
year, in pursuance of an act of Congress APP
proved July 18th, 1861, the inhabitants Of
Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, North
Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana,
Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi and Florida,
excepting the inhabitants Of that part ofthe
State Of Virginia lying west of the Alleghe-
ny mountains, and to such other parts of
that State and the other States named, as
might maintain loyal adhesion TO the
Union and the Constitution, or might be
from time to time occupied and controlled by
the forces of the United States, engaged in
the dispersion of insurgents, were declared
to be in state Of instruction against the
United States; and
WHEREAS, By another proclamation of
the LIST day of July, 1862, issued in pursu-
anee of an act of Congress, approved Janu-
airy 18th, in the same year, the instruction
was declared to be still existing in the States
aforesaid, with the exception of certain
specified counties in the State of Virginia;
and
WHEREAS, By another proclamation made
on the I'd day of April, 1868, in pursu-
ance of the act of Congress of July 18th,
1861, the exceptions named in the procla
nation of August, 10th, 1861, were revoked,
and the inhabitants of the States of Geor-
gia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Ten
nessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkan-
sas, Mississippi, Florida and Virginia, ex-
cept the forty-eight counties of Virginia
designated West Virginia, and the ports Of
New Orleans, Key West, Port Royal and
Beaufort, S. C., were declared to be in a state
of rebellion against the United States; and
WHEREAS, The House of Representa-
tives, on the Odd of July, 1861, adopted res
olutions in the words following:
'ResOtUed, BY the House of Representa-
tives, of the Congress of the United States,
That the present deplorable civil war has
been forced upon the country by the dis
unionists of the Southern States now in re-
bellion against the Constitutional Govern
ment and in arms around the capital, that
in this national emergency, Congress, ban
ishing all feelings of resentment, will do
only its duty to the whole country that the
war is not waged on our part in any spirit
of oppression, nor for any purpose of con-
quest or subjugation, nor for the purpose of
oyerthrowing on interfering with established
institutions of those States, but to maintain
and defend the supremacy of the Constitu-
ton, and to preserve the Union with all the
dignity, equality and rights of the several
States unimpaired, and so soon as these OBJ
jects are accomplished the war ought to
cease" and
WHEREAS, The Senate of the United
States, on the 18th of July, 1861, adopted a
resolution in the words following, viz:
THE resolution failed to reach us.-EDs.
UNION AND AMERICAN.
And, WHEREAS, These resolutions, though
not Joint or concurrent in form, are sub
expressed the sense of Congress upon the
subject to which they relate; and
WHEREAS, By my proclamation of the
18th of June last, the instruction in the
State of Tennessee was declared to have
been suppressed, the authority of the
United States therein to be undisputed, and
such United States officers as had been duly
commissioned to be in the undisputed exer-
else of their official functions and
WHEREAS, There nowexists no organized
armed resistance of misguided citizens, nor
others to the authority of the United States,
in the States of Georgia, South Carolina,
Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Ala
bama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas
and Florida, and the laws can be sustainedand
enforced therein by proper civil authority,
State or Federal, and the people Of the said
States are well and Loyalty disposed, and
have conformed, or viii conform, in their
Legislature to the condition of affairs grow
ing ont of the amendment to the Constitu
ton of the United States prohibiting slavery
within the the limits and jurisdiction of the
United States; and
WHEREAS, In view Of the before recited
premises it is the manifest determination of
the American people that no State of its own
will has the right or power to go out of or
separate itself from, or be separated from the
American Union, and that, therefore, each
State ought to remain and constitute an in
tegral part of the United States and
WHEREAS, the people of the several before
mentioned States have, in the manner afore-
said, given satisfactory evidence that they
acquiesce in this important resolution; and
WHEREAS, 1t is believed to be funda-
mental principle of the Government that the
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been overcome and subdued, must be dealt
with so as to induce them TO virtually be-
come friends or else they must be held by
military power 50 as to prevent them from
ever again doing harm as enemies, which
last named policy is abhorrent to humanity
and freedom; and
WHEREAS The Constitution of the United
States provides for constitutional common
wealth only as States, and not as Territories,
and guarantees protection to them as such;
and
WHEREAS, such constituted States must
be, and by the Constitution and
laws of the United States are, made equals
and placed on like footing as to political
rights, immunities, dignity ard favor with
the several States with which they are
united; and
WHEREAS, The observance of political
equality as principle of right and justice,
is well calculated to encourage the people of
the States to be and become more and more
constant and persevering in their renewal Of
allegiance and
WHEREAS, Standing armies, military &C.
equations, martial law, military tribunals
and the suspension of the writ of habeds cor
puS are, in time of peace, dangerous to the
public interest and incompatible with the
rights of citizens, contrary to the
genius and spirit of our free institutions, and
an exhaustion of the National resources, and
ought not therefore to be questioned or al
lowed except in case of war or for repelling
invasion, or for the suppression of insurrec-
ton or rebellion and
WHEREAS, The policy of the Govern
ment of the United States from the begin
ming Of the instruction TO its final suppress
sion has been in conformity with the princi-
Piles herein set forth:
Therefore l, Andrew johnson, President
Of the United States, do hereby proclaim and
declare that the instruction which hereto
fore existed in the States Of Georgia, South
Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Louis
lana, Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tex
rs, Florida and Tennessee is at an end, and
heneeforth to be so regarded.
In testimony whereof have hereunto set
nv hand and caused the Seal of the United
States to be affixed.
Done atthe city of Washington, this second
lay of April, in the year of our Lord, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, and