Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-04-04
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PEACE DECLARED!
Proclamation by the President.
WASHINGTON, April ., 1866.

and the laws, declared that the laws of the
| United States were opposed and the eXecu-
tion thereof obstructed in the States of
South Carolina, Georgia. Alabama, Florida,
| Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas by COM
binatlons too powerful to be suppressed by
the ordinary course of judicial proceedings
or by the powers vested in the marshals
by law; aud
WHEREAS, BY another proclamation made
on the 10th day of August. in the same
| year, in pursuance of an act of Congress
| approved July l3, 1861 the inhabitants of
| Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, North
Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisi-
ana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi and
| Florida, except the Inhabitants of
that part Of the State of Virginia
lying west of the Allegheny noun
tains, and to such other parts of that
State and the other States before named as
might maintain Dyal 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 insurgents, were declared
to be in state of insurreCtion against the
United States; and
WHEREAS, BY another proclamation on
the lst day of July, 1862, issued in pursu-
ance of an act of Congress approved June
| 7tb, in the same year, the ihsurrection 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 day of April, 1863 in pursuance
of the act OF Congress of July 13, 1861, the
exceptions named in the proclamation of
August lG, 1861, were revoked and the in
habitahts OF the States of Georgia,
South Carolina, North Carolina,
Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas,
Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida and
| Virginia, except the f0rty-eight counties of
the ports of New Orleans, Key West, Port
Royal and Beaufort, S. c.; and
| WHEREAS, BY another proclamation, on
the lst day of July, 1862, issued in pur-
suance of an act OF Congress, approved
June H. OF the same year, the nsurreCtiOn
was declared to be still existing in the
States aforesaid, with the exception of GER
tain specified counties in the State of Vir-
ginia; and
WHEREAS, By another proclamation,
made on the I'd of April, 1868, pursuance
Of an act OF Congress of July Ii, 1861, the
exceptions named in the proclamation of
August l6 1861, were revoked, and the in.
habitants OF the States of Georgia, South
|
bama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Missis-
sippi, Florida and Virginia, except the As
counties of Virginia designated as West
Virginia, and ports of New Orleans, Key
West, Port Royal and Beaufort, in South
Carolina, were declared to be in a state OF
insurrection against the United States; and
WHEREAS, The House of Representa-
tives, on January 22d, 1861, adopted res
OutiOn in the words following viz: Re
solved, BY the House of Representatives of
the Congress of the United States, that the
present deplorable civil war has been forced
upon the country by the disuniOnists of the
Southern States now in rebellion against a
constitutional Government, and in arms
arOuLd the capital, that in this national
emergency, Congress, banishing all feelings
OF resentment, will do only 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 or in
tertering with the established institutions
OF those States, but to maintain and de-
fend the purity of the Constitution, and to
preserve the Union with all its dignity,
equality, and the rights of the several
States unimpaired; and 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, 1861, adopted q
resolution; and
WHEREAS, These resolutions, though not
joint or concurrent, may be regarded as
having expressed the sense of Congress up-
OH the subject to which they relate; and,
WHEREAS, By my proclamation of the
18th of June last, the insurrection in the
State of Tennessee was declared to have
been suppressed, the authority of the Uni
ted States therein to be undisputed, and
such United States officers as had been duly
commissioned to be in the undisputed eX-
ercise 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 Carolina, Tennessee, Ala
bama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi and
Florida, and helaws can be sustained and
enforced therein by the proper civil author
ity, 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 amended Constitution
of the United States, prohibiting slavery
within the limits aud jurisdiction of the
| United States; and
| WHEREAS, In view of the before reel ed
premises, it is the manifest determination
| of the American people that no State, of
its own will, shall have the right or power
to go out OF or separate itself from or be
separated from the American Union, and
that, therefore, each State ought to remain
and constitute an integral part OF the Uni
To- States; and,
WHEREAS, tn people of the several be-
aforementioned States have, in the manner
aforesaid, given satisfactory evidence that
they acquiesce in this important revolution
of the National Union; and
WHEREAS, 1t Is believed to be the funda-
mental principle of Government, that peo-
pie who have revolted, and who have been
overcome and subdued, must be dealt with
so as to induce them virtually to become
friends, or else they must be held by abso-
lutte military power so as to prevent them
from ever again doing harm as enemies,
which last named policy is abhorrent to
humanity and freedom; and
WHEREAS, The Constitution of the United
States provides for Constitutional commits
mites only as States and not as territories,
and provides no protectOrates; and
WHEREAS, Such constructed States must
necessarily be, and by the Constitution and
laws of the United States are, made equals,
and placed on like footing as to political
rights, immunities, dignity and power, with
the several States with which. they are
united; 8nd
WHEkEAs, The observance of political
equality as principle of right and justice
is well calculated to encourage the people
of the States to be and become more and
more constant and perseverlng in their re-
newed allegiance, and -ps.s