The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-06-26
No. g..
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.

PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS, on the fifteenth day of April, eigh
teen hundred and sixty Lone, the President of the
United States, in view of an Instruction against
the Laws, Constitution, and Government of the
United States, which had broken out within the
States of South Carolina Georgia, Alabama, Flo
rida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, and in
pursuance of the provisions of the act, entitled
&C An Act!to provide for calling forth the militia
to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insur-
rectionS, and repeal the act now in force for that
purpose" approved February twenty;eight, sew
militia to suppress said Instruction, and to
the laws of the Union to be Only executed, and
the Insurgents have failed to disporse by the
time directed by the President and, Whereas
such instruction has since broken out, and yet
exists, within the States of Virginia, North Ca
rolina Tennessee and Arkansas; and, whereas,
the insurgents in all the said States claim to act
under the authority thereof, and such claim is
not disclaimed or repudiated by the persons eXer-
or States. or in the part parts thereof in which
such combinations exist, nor has such insurrec-
ton been suppressed by said States:
Now, therefore, L, ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
President of the United States, in pursuance of
an act of Congress, approved July thirteen, eigh-
teen hundred and sixty one, do hereby declare
South Carolina, Virginia, North Carolina Tennes-
see, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mis-
slppi, and Florida, Except the inhabitants of
that part of the State of Virginia lying west of
OF that State and the other States hereinbefore
named as may maintain loyal adhesion of the
time to time, occupied and controlled by forces
OF the United States engaged in the dispersion of
said insurgents) in state of instruction
against the United States, and that all CONNER
cial intercourse between the same and the inha-
bitants thereof with the exceptions aforesaid,
and the citizens of other States and other parts OF
the United States is unlawful, and will remain
unlawful until such instruction shall cease or
has been suppressed; that all goods and chat
tells, wares and merchandise, coming from any
OF said States, with the exceptions aforesaid into
other parts of the United States without the spe-
cal license and permission of the President,
tnrougn the secretary OF the Treasury, or pro-
ceeding to any of said States with the exceptions
aforesaid, by land or water, together with the
vessel or vehicle conveying the same or convey |
ing persons to or from said States, with said ex-
cePuons, Will be forfeited to the United States;
and that from and after fifteen days from issuing
OF this proclamation, all ships and vessels be. |
longing In whole or in part to any citizen or in
habltant of any of said States, with said excep-
LIONS, found at sea, or in any port of the United
states will be forfaited to the United States. and
hereby enjoin upon all district attorneys mar |
shals, and officers of the revenue and of the mill
tary ana naval forces of the United States to he |
Vlgilant In the execution of said act, and in the
enforcement OF the penalties and forfetures i'm,
posed or declared by it; leaving any party who
may THINK himself ag- rieved thereby to his an
Plcatlon to the Secretary of the Treasury for the
sesslon OF any penalty or forfeiture, which the
SAID Secretaryis authorized by law to grant If in
ms Judgment, the special circumstances of anV
case snail require such remission
In witness whereof, ! have hereunto set NV
hand and caused the seal of the United States to
Done at the City of Washington. this civ.
teenth day of August in the wear Of orr
L. s. Lord eighteen hundred and sixty-one
and OF the Independence of the United
States OF America the eighty-sixtb
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
NHLiAA IL SEWARD, Secretary of State