Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1866-04-11

guided citizens or others 90 the au.
thority OF tho United States in me
States of Georgia, South CalNlina,
Virginia, North Carolina, Ton .ssee,
Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mis-
sissipp, and Florida, and the laws
can be sustained and enforced therein
by the proper civil authority, State or
Federal, 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 growing out of the amendment
to the Constitution Of the United
States prohibiting slavery within the
limits and jurisdiction Of the United
States.
And whercdS, 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 sepa-
rate itself from, or be separated from,
the American Union and that, there
fore, each State ought to remain and
constitute an integral part of the Uni
ted States
And ,ohercas, Tho people Of the
several before mentioned States have,
in the manner aforesaid, given salts
factory evidence that they acquiesce
in this sovereign and important res
toration of the national unity.
And uheredS, 1t is believed to be q
fundamental principle of government,
that people who have revolted and
who have been overcome and subdued
must either be dealt with so as to in
duce them voluntarily to become
friends, or else they must be held by
absolute military power, devastated
so as to prevent them from ever again
doing harm as enemies, which last
named policy is abhorTent to humani-
ty and freedom.
ri And phereds, The Constitution of
the United State provides for consti-
tutional communities only as States
and not as territories, dependencies,
provinces, or protectorates.
And ohereds, Such constituent States
must necessarily be, and by the Con-
stitution and laws of the United States
are made equals and placed on a like
footing as to political rights, immuni-
ties, dignity and power with the seve-
raj States with which they arc united.
and whereds, The observance OF
political equality as principle ofright
and justice is well calculated to en-
courage tho people of the aforesaid
States to become more ard more con-
stantand persevering in their renewed
allegiance;
And iChcreas Standing armies, mil
litary occupation, martial law, military
tribunals, and the suspension of the
privilege Of the writ of habeds corpus,
are, in time of peace, dangerous to
public liberty, incompatible with the
individual rights of the citizens, con-
trary TO the genius and spirit Of our
free institutions, and exhaustive TO
the national resources, and ought not,
therefore, to be sanctioned or allowc !,
lexcept in cases of actual necessity for
Iepelling invasion, or supprcssing in
lsurrection or rebellion
And ichereds, The policy Of the gov.
ernment of the United States, from
the beginning of the insurection to
hts overthrow and final suppression,
has been in conformity with the prin.
ciples herein set forth and enumerated
Therefore, |, Andrew Johnson, Pres.
ident Of the United States, do hereby
proclaim and declare that the insuls
ERECTION which heretofore existed in
the States of Georgia, South Carolina
North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee
Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mis-
sissippi, and Florida, is at an end ,and
henccforth to be so regarded
In testimony whereof have here
unto set my hand and caused the sea
of the United States to be affixed.
/, Done at the City of Washington, the
second day of April, in the year o
our Lord, one thousand eight hun
dred and sixty-six, and of the Uni
ted States Of America the nnetieth
ANDREW Johnson.
BY the President:
WILLIAM III. SEWARD, Sec'y of State
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