The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-08-23
Proclamation OF the President.

A'eSt0Tu1to" " We WrH V dd6edS
Corpus throughout tie Southern
!Ss,:!es--Mcr!;a! Lag Removed--
Peace, Order, Tranquility and Cioil
-AMh0rity Declared to Erist throuqA-
out The UMited States.
By Tie President Of Tie United States Of
AmeTcia.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, by the proclamations of
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, de-
clared that the laws of the United
States were opposed, and the execu-
ton thereof obstructed, in the States
OF South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
floridn, Mississippi, Louisiana and
Texas, by combinations too powerful
to be suppressed by the ordinary
course of judicial proceedings only,
the powers vested in 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 approved July 13,
1861, the inhabitants of the States of
Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia,
North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama,
Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Missis-
slppl and Florida, except the inhabi-
tants of those parts Of the State of
Virginia lying West Of the Allegheny
Mountains, and except also the in
habitants of such other parts of that
State and the other States before
named, as might maintain loyal ad-
heslon to the Union or Constitution,
or might be from time to time occu-
pied and controlled by the forces of
the United States engaged in the dis
perslon of the insurgents, were de-
clared to be in Il state of insurrection
against the United States; and
Whereas, by another proclamation
OF the lst day of July, 1862, issued in
pursuance of an Act of Congress APP
proved June 7, in the same year, the
lnSurrectlon was declared to be still
existing III 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, 1862, in
pursuance of the Act of Congress of
July l3, 1861, the exceptions named
in the proclamation of August 16,
1861, We're revoked, and the inhabi-
tants of the States of Georgia, South
Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee,
Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkan-
sas, Mississippi, Florida and Viz
ginia, except the forty eight Counties
of Virginia designated rs West Vir-
ginia, and the ports of New Orleans,
Key West, Port Royal and Beaufort,
In South Carolina, were declared to
be still in state of insurrection
against the United States; and
Whereas, by another proclamation
of the 10th day of September, 1868,
made in pursuance of the Act of Con
gress approved March 3, 1868, the
rebellion was declared to be still cx-
listing, and the privilege of the writ
of habeaS corpus was in certain speci-
fed cases suspended throughout the
United States, said suspension to
continue throughout the duration of
the rebellion, or until said proclama-
ton should, by a subsequent one to
be issued by the President of the
United States, pe modified or re-
voked; and
Whereas the House of Representa-
tives, on the 22d day of July, 1861,
adopted resolution in the words fol
lowing, namely:
''Resoleed, by lie House Of Repre-
sentutiues efMe Congress Of Tie Uniied
States, That the present deplorable
civil war has been forced upon the
country by the disunionists of the
Southern States, now in revoltagaipst
the constitutional Government, and
in arms around the capital. That in
this national emergency Congress,
banishing all feelings of mere passion
or resentment, will recollect only its
duty to the whole country. That
this war is not waged on our part in
any spirit of oppression, nor for any
purpose of conquest or subjugation,
nor purpose Of overthrowing or in
interfering with the rights or es-
tablshed institutions of those States,
but to defend and maintain the su-
premacy of the Constitution and to
preserve the Union, with all the Dig
nifty, equality and rights of the several
States unimpaired, and that as soon
as these objects are accomplished, the
war ought to cease" and
Whereas, the Senate of the United
States, on the 25th day of July, 1861,
adopted Il resolution in the following
words, to wit:
"Resolccl, That the present de-
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