Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1866-04-12
made on the I'd day of April, 1853,

AZ PHAo~ohSS Va oh <sSC Va OonSl OcS
of July Is, 1861, the exceptions
named in the proclamation Of Au-
gust l6, 1861, were revoked, and
the inability of the States of Geor-
gia, South Carolina, North Carroll
ma, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisi-
ana, Texas. Arkansas, Mississippi,
Florida, land Virginia, except the for
ty-eight counties of Virginia desig-
mated as Western Virginia, and the
ports of New Orleans, Key West,
Port Royal and Beaufort, South
Carolina, were declared to be in a
state of instruction against the
United States; and whereas, the
House of Representatives on the
22nd of July, 1861, adopted reso-
lutions in the words following. viz !:
"Resolved by the House Of
Representatives, &c. That the
present deplorable civil war has
been forced upon the country by
the disunionists of the Southern
States, now in rebellion against
Constitutional Government, and
in arms around the Capital; that
in this national emergency Con-
gress, banishing all feelings of re-
sentiment, 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 conquest or subjuga-
ton, nor for the purpose of over
throwing or interfering with the es-
tablished institutions Of those
States, but to maintain and defend
the supremacy of the Constitution,
and to preserve the Union with all
its dignity equally, and the rights
of the several States unimpaired,
and as soon as these objects are ac-
complished the warought to cease"
And, whereas, The resolutions,
though not joint or concurrent,
form substantially, and may be re-
garded as having expressed the
sense of Congress upon the subject
to which they relate And where
as, 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 un-
disputed exercise of their official
functions.
And, whereas, There now exists
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 Carroll
ma, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisi-
ana, Arkansas, Mississippi and
Florida, and the laws can be sus-
tanned and enforced therein by the
proper civil authority of the State
or Federal Governments, and the
said States are well and loyalty
disposed, and have conformed, or
will conform in their Legislatures,
to the condition of affairs growing
out of the American Constitution
of the United States prohibiting
slavery within the limits and ju-
risdiction of the United States.
And, whereas, In view of the be-
fore recited premises, it is the man.
ifest determination of the Ameri-
can people that no State, of its
own will, have the right or power
to so out of, or separate itself from,
or be separated from the Ameri-
can Union, and that, therefore,
each State ought to remain and
constitute an integral part of the
United States.
Whereas, the people of the sew
eral before mentioned States have,
in the manner aforesaid, given sat-
isfactory evidence that they ac-
quiesce in this important resolu- /
ton of the National Union; and, I
Whereas, it is believed to be
the fundamental principle of the /
Government that the people who
have revolted, and who have been
overcome and subdued, must be
lealt with, SO as to induce them to
become friends, or else they must
De held by absolute military pow
n SO as to prevent them from ever
lgain doing harm as enemies,
which last-named policy is abhor-
'ent to humanity and freedom;
md, /,
Whereas, The Constitution of
he United States provides for Con-