The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-04-11
Proclamation by the President.
Onicial Declaration Of Peace.

Proclamation by the President.
Onicial Declaration Of Peace.
WASHINGTON, April 2.
DY THE PRESIDENT OF TIE UNITED STATES.
A Proclamation.
WHEREAS, BY proclamations on the 10Th
and 10Th OF April, one thousand eight hun
dred and sixty-one, the President of the
United States, in virtue Of the power vested
in him by the Constitution and laws, de-
clared that the laws of the United States
were opposed, and the execution thereof
obstructed 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 the
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 Con-
gress, approved July Is, 1861, the inhabi'-
ants Of Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia,
N
lana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, and
Florida, except the inhabitants Of that part
of the State of Virginia lying west OF the
Allegheny mountains, and to such other
parts of that State and the other States be-
fore named as might maintain loyal adhcs-
ion 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 disposition of insurgents,
were declared to be in state Of insurrec-
| ton against the United States; and
WHEREAS, BY another proclamation, on
the first day of July, 1862, issued in pur-
suance of an act of Congress approved June
Z, 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 of April, 1868, in pursuance Of an
act of Congress of July ID, 1861, the ex-
emptions named in the proclamation OF
August 16, 1861, were revoked, and the in
habitants of the States Of Georgia, South
Carolina, North Carolina, Texas, Arkansas,
Mississippi, Florida, and Virginia, except
the forty-eight counties Of Virginia desig-
mated as West Virginia, and the ports Of
New Orleans, Key West, Port Royal and
Beaufort in South Carolina, were declared
to be in state Of instruction against the
United States; and
WHEREAS, The House Of Representatives,
on the 22d of July, 1861, adopted resolu-
ton in the words following, viz
Resolued by the House Of Representatives q
the Congress Of the United States, That the
present dcplorable civil war has been forced
upon the country by the disunionists of the
Southern States, now in revolt against the
constitutional Government of the United
States, and in arms around the capital; that
in this national emergency Congress, ban
ishing all feelings OF mere passion or resent
ment, 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 for the purpose Of overthrowing nor
interfering with the rights or established
institutions of those States, but to maintain
and defend the supremacy Of the Constitu-
ton and preserve the Union with all its
equality and the dignity of the several
states unimpaired, and that as soon rs these
objects are accomplished, the war ought to
cease" and
WHEREAS, The Senate of the United
States, on the Goth of July, 1861, adopted a
resolution in the words following, viz
(same as above); and
WHEREAS, These resolutions, though not
joint or concurrent in form, are substan,i-
ally identical, and as such may be regarded
as having express ed 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 10 have
been suppressed, the authority of the Uni
ted States therein to be undisputcd, and
such officers as had been deputed, to be in
the unrestricted exercise of their official
functions and
WHEREAS, There now exists no organic.
ed armed resistance Of misguided citizens
or others to the authority Of the United
States in the States Of Georgia. Virginia
North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee
Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi
Texas, and Florida, and the laws can bs
sustained and enforced therein by proper
civil authority, State or Federal, and the
pc ople Of the said States are well and 10y
ally disposed, and have conformed or will
conform in their legislation to the condition
Of affairs growing out of the amendment t.
the Constitution of the United States pro
hibiting slavery within the limits and juris-
diction of the United States; and
WHEREAS, In consideration of these be.
fore.cited premises, it the manifest de-