Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-03
Associated Press Report.
PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESID'T

/ WASHINGTON, April 2.
By the President of the o. s.:
WHEREAS, By proclamations en- the 18th
/ and 18th 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 OBJ
structed in the States of South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi,
Louisiana and Texas, by combinations too
| powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary
| course of judicial proceedings, or by powers
vested in the marshals by law, and
WHEREAS, BY anothe proclamation made
on the 10th day of August in the same
year, in pursuance Of an Act of Congress,
approved July 18th, 1861, the inhabitants
of Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, North
Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana,
Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi and Florida,
except the inhabitants Of that part of the
State of Virginia lying west of the Alleghe-
ny mountains, and to such other parts of
that State and the other States before named,
as might maintain a 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 the insurgents, were
declared to be in a state Of lnsurrec ion
against the United States, and
WHEREAS, By another proclamation of the
lst of July, 1862, issued in furtherance Of
an act Of Congress, approved June 7th in
the same year, the insurrection was declared
to be still existing in the States aforesaid,
with the exception of certain specified coun-
ties in the State of Virginia and
WHEREAS, By another proclamation made
on the Sd day of April, 1868, in pursuance of
the act of Congress of July 18th, 1861, the
exceptions named in the proclamation Of
August 10th, 1861, were revoked and the in
habitants of the States of Georgia, South
Carolina. North Carolina, Tennessee, Ala
bama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mis-
sissippi, Florida and Virginia, exOapt tho
forty-eight counties of Virginia, designated
as West Virginia, and the points Of New
Orleans, Key West, Port Royal and Beau
fort, in South Carolina were declared to be
in state of insurrection against the United
States.
WHEREAS, The House of Representatives
on the 22nd of July, 1861, adopted resolu-
ton in the words following, viz:
"ReS0lued 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-
volt against the Constitutional Government
and in arms around the Capitol; that in this
emergency Congress, banishing all feelings
Of resentment, will reeollect only its duty
to the whole country; that this war is not
waged on our part by any spirit OF opPres-
sion, nor for any purpose Of conquest or sub
iugation, or for the purpose of overthrowing
or interfering with the rights or established
institutions of those States, but to maintain
and defend the supremacy of the Constltu-
ton, and preserve the Union with all its
dignity and the 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 Of July, 1881, adopted n
resolution in the words following, viz: (The
resolution passed by the Senate is the same
precisely as the foregoing House resolution),
and
WHEREAS, These resolutions, though
not Joint or concurrent in form, are sub
stantially indentical, and as such may be
regarded as having expressed the sense OF
Congress upon the subject to which they re-
late; and
WHEREAS, by my proclamation of the
18th June last, the insurrection 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 ser
vice of their official functions, there; and
WHEREAS, There now exists no organized
armed resistance of misguided citizens or
others, to the authority of the United States
in the States of Georgia, South Carolina,
Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Ala
bama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi and
Florida, and the laws can be sustained and
enforced therein by proper civil authority,
State or Feder,-l; and the people of the said
States are well and Loyalty disposed and
have conformed or will conform in their
legislation to the condition of affairs grow
ing out of the amendment to the Constitu-
ton of the Z United States, prohibiting slavery
within the limits and jurisdiction OF the
United States, and WHEREAS,
The manifest determination of American
people that not State of its own will have
the right or power to 60 out of, or seperate
itself from, or beseperated from, the Ameri-
can Union; and that, therefore, each State
ought to remain and constitute an integral
part of the United States and
WHEREAS, The people of the several before
mentioned States have in manner aforesaid,
given satisfactory evidence that they ac-
| Guiesce in this sovereign and important re-
yolution of the national unity; and
WHEREAs, Il is believed to be the funda-
mental principle of the Governments that
people who have revolted and who have
been overcome and subdued, must either be
dealt with so as to induce them voluntarily
70 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 abhorrentto humanity and freedom; and
WHEREAS, The Constitution of the United
| States provides for Constitutional commune
ties only as States and not as territOIi asi
dependencies, provinces or protectorates
and
WHEREAS. Such constitutional States must
necessarily be and by the constitution and
| laws of the United States are made equal
and placed on a like footing as to political
| rights, imnunities, dignity and power with
the several States with which they are uni
| ted and
WHEEEAs, The observance Of political
| equality as principle of right and justice
4 is well calculated TO encourage people o
| aforesaid States to be and become more anC
more compact and persevering IN their re
newed allegiance; and
| WHEREAS, Standing armies, military oc
cupation, martial law, military tribunal
and the suspension of the writ Of habeal
corpus are in time of peace dangerous L
uubiic liberty, incOmpatib bic with indiYidua
rights of citizens, contrary 10 the geniu
and spirit of our free institutions, and ex
haustive of the national resources, and ough
not therefore to be sanctioned or allowe'
except in cases Of actual necessity for re
pelling invasion or suppressing insurrectlol
Il or rebellion, and
WHEREAs, The policy Of the Governmon
Il of &ha limited States from the beginDiu