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The War Declared at an End
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The Authority Of f the Government
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The Political Equality Of all the
States Declared,
WASHINGTON, April ?.
By the President of the United States

| feenth and nineteenth or April one
| thousand eight hundred and sixty one,
the President of the United States, in
virtue of the power vested in him by
the Constitution and the laws, declared
that the laws of the United States were
opposed and the execution thereof OBJ
structed 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 proceed
ings or by 5the power 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
Congress approved July 18th, 1861,
the inhabitants of Georgia, South Caro-
lima, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee,
Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas,
Mississippi and Florida, except the in
habitants 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 before named
as might maintain loyal adhesion
10 the Union and the Constitution, or
might be from time to time occupied
aud controlled by the forces of the
United States, engaged in the dispersion
of the insurgents, were declared to be iii
state OF insusurrectiOn against the
United States
Aud whereas, BY another proc.
lamatiOn, on the lst day of July,
1862, issued in pursuance of an act OF
Congress, approved on the 9TH OF June,
in the same year, the insurrection
was declared to be still existing in the
States aforesaid, with the exception of
certain specified counties i'll the State OF
Virginia;
And whereas, By another proc
lamation made on the I'd day OF
April, 1868, in pursuance OF the
act of Congress OF July 18th, 1861, the
exceptions named in the proclamation
OF August 10th, 1861, was revoked, and
the inhabitants of the States of Georgia,
South Carolina, North Carolina, Tcnnes-
see, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkan-
sas, Mississippi, Florida and Virginia ex
cept the forty eight counties Of Virginia
designated as West Virginia, and the
ports of New Orleans, Key West, Port
Royal and Beaufort, in South Carolina,
were declared to be still in a state of in
surrection against the United States
Aud whereas, The House of Repre-
sentatives, oil the 22d day of July, 1861,
adopted resolution in the words fol,
lowing, namely:
Resolved by the House of Representa-
tives 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 revolt against the Consti
| tutional Government, and in arms
around the Capital.
That, in this national emergency, Con
gress, banishing all feelings OF mere pas
SION or resentment, 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 subjngatiOn, nor
purpose of oyerthrowing or interfering
with the rights or established institu-
lions of these States, but to maintain
ard defend the supremacy of the Consti-
tuition and 10 preserve the Union with
all the dignity, equality and rights of
the several States unimpaired And
that as soon as those objects are accom-
plished, the war ought to cease
Aud whereas, The Senate Of the Uni
ted States, on the 25th Of July, lS6b
adopted a resolution in the words follow
| ing, to wit.
Resolved, That the present deplora-
ble civil war has been forced upon the
country by the disunionists of the South-
ern States, now in revolt against the
constitutional Government. and in arms
around the Capital; and in this nation
al emergency, Congress, banishing all
| feeling of mere passion or resentment,
| will reccollect only its duty to the whole
country; that this war is not prosecuted
on our part in any spirit Of oppression,
nor for any purpose OF conquest or sub
| jugation, no purpose of overthrowing or
interfering with the rights or establish
| ed institutions of these States, but to
defend and MAINTAIN the supremacy of
the Constitution, and all laws made in
pursuance thereof, and to preserve the
Union with all the dignity, equality and
rights of the several States unimpaired ID;
that, as soon as these objects are accom-,
plished, the war ought to cease
And Whereas, these resolutions, though
not Joint or concurrent in form, are sub
stantially identical, and as such may be
regarded as having expressed the sense
of Congress upon the subject to which
they relate.
Aud whereas, by my proclamation of
the 18th day of June last the insurrec-
tion in the State of Tennessee was de
| clared to have been suppressed, the au
| Ihorty, of the United States therein to
be uudisputed, and such United States
officers as had been duly commissioned
to be in the uninterrupted exercise OF
their official functions;
And whereas, There now exists no or
canized armed resistance of misguided
citizens or others TO the authority OF the
United States, in the States of Georgia
South Carolina, Virginia, North Carroll
ma, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Ar
kansas, Mississippi, Florida, and the law:
can be sustained and enforced therein by
the proper civil authority, State or Fed
eral aud the people of the said State:
are we'll and Loyalty disposed, and have
conformed, or will conform, in their leg
islation, to the condition OF affairs grow
ing out of the amendment to the Consti
tuition OF the United States, prohibiting
slavery within the limits and iurisdic
tion of the United States.
And whereas, In view of the befor,
recited premises, it is the manifest deter
mination of the American people thai
+ no State. of its own will, has the righ'
or power to go out OF, or separate itsel