The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-04-26

OF affairsg growing out Vfthe
to the Constitution of the
United : States y prohibiting slavery
within the limits and jurisdiction of
the, United States; and 80 ~
Whereas, Iii vieAy of the before re-
cited premises, II is the manifest de-
termination Of the American people
that no State of its own will has. the
right or power to go out of OF separate
itself from, or be separated from the
American Union, and that, therefore,
each State ought to remain and con-
stitute an integral part of the United
States and gl INT
Whereas, The people Of the several
before mentioned States have, in the
manner aforesaid given satisfactory
evidence that they acquiesce in this
important resolution of the National
Union; and .t.r ,,,-.s 49,.
Whereas, 1t is believed TO. be the
fundamental principle Of the Govern
ment that the people who have re-
vplted, and.wh have been overcome
land subdued must beedealt with so as
to induce them virtually to become
| friends, or else these must be held, by
absolute military power, SO as to pre-
vent them from ever again doing harm
as enemies, which last named policy
is abhorrent to humanity and freedom;
and t ' -1.oi'-s 9GI
Whereas, The Constitution Of the
United States provides for constitd-
tional communities only as States and
not as Territories, and provides no
protectOrates (; and xxi ..,, .,,L,,r
Whereas, Such constitutional States
must necessarily be, and by the Con-
stitutiOn and laws of the United States
are made equal and placed ON a like
footing as to political rights, immuni-
ties, dignity and power, with the sever
al States with which they are nlnitel; /;
and .H sHIslyd y'I5Vl
Whereas, The observance of ,politi-
cal equality as a principleTof right and
justice is well calculated to encourage
the people of the States to be and be-
come more and more constant and per-
severing in their renewed allegiance ;
and y Hi '-.t -. n lpv41I
! Whereas, Standing armies, military
occupation, martial law, military tfi-
bunals, and suspension of the privilege
of the writ of habeas corpus, are in
time of peace dangerous to the public
interest and incompatible with the in
dividual rights of the citizen, contrary
to the genius and spirit of our free in
stitutions and exhaustive of the ma
tional resources, and ought not, there
fore, be sanctioned or allowed, except
in case of war, for repelling invaders
or suppressing insurrection or rebel
belliOn; and ' ""t''Ii
Whereas, The policy of the Govern
ment of the United States, from the
beginning of the insurrection to its
final suppression, has bj en- in conform
ity with the principles herein set forth
and enumerated - H.. .f,e9.fg
: Therefore, !, Andrew Johnson,
President of the United States dc
hereby proclaim and declare, that the
insurrection which heretofore existed in
the States of Georgia, South Carolina
North Carolina, Virginia, Louisiana,
Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tex,
as, and Florida, is at an end, and
hencefOrth to be so regarded. 1fT
In testimony whereof, 1 have here
unto set my hand, and caused the
seal of the United States to be affix.
ed. Done at the City of Washing.
ton, on the I'd day of April, in the
year of our Lord, 1866, and of the
independence of the United States
of America the Goth.
[Signedl, ANDREW JOHNSON.
BY the President. '..-' -io''ir
WNt. II. SEwARD, 'Sec'y of State.
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