The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-04-04
THE PROCLAMATION.

lelL dL OUR COuDtiuS IOOLu'
THE PROCLAMATION.
We give in full the proclamation of Presi-
dent johnson, issued on the I'd April.
By the President of the United States of
America
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, by proclamation of the 18th and
18th of April, 1861, the President of the
United States, in virtue of the power vested
in him by the constitution and the laws, de-
clared that the laws of the United States
were opposed and the execution thereof OBJ
structed in the States of South Carolina, Geor-
ga, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana
and Texas, by combinations too powerful TO
be suppressed by the ordinary course of judi
cial proceedings, or by the powers vested in
the marshals by the 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 Is, 1861, the inhabitants of the States
of Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, North
Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana,
Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi and Florida, ex-
cept the inhabitant- Of that part of the State
of Virginia lying west Of the Allegany noun
tains, and such other parts of that State, and
the other States before named as might main
tain a loyal 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
the insurgents, We're declared to be in
state of instruction against the United States,
and
Whereas by another proclamation Of the
first day of July, 1882, issued in pursuance
of an act Of Congress approved June It'll, in
the same year, the insurrection 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, 1853, in pursuance of the
act Of Congress of July Is, 1861, the excep-
tons named in the proclamation Of August
16, 1861, were revoked and the inhabitants
Of the States Of Georgia, South Carolina, N.
Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Tex
as, Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida, and Vir-
ginia, except the forty-eight counties of Vir-
GINA designated as West Virginia, and the
ports of New Orleans, Key West, Port Royal,
and Beaufort, in South Carolina, were declar-
ed to be still in a state of insurrection against
the United Stateo, an-d
Whereas the House Of Representatives, on
the 22d day of July, 1861, adopted resolu-
ton in the words following, namely:
"Resolued, 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 disunionsts of the
Southern States, now in revolt against the con-
stitutional government, and in arms around
the capital; and that, in this national emergency,
Congress, banishing all feeling of mere passion
or resentment, will recolect only its duty to
the whole country. This war is not waged on
part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any
purpose Of conquest or subjugation, nor for the
purpose Of overthrowing or interfering with
the rights or established institutions of these
States, but to maintain and defend the supre-
macy of the Constitution, and preserve the
Union with all its rights and dignity, and the
equality of the several States unimpaired and
that as soon as these objects are accomplished,
the War ought to cease"
And whereas the Senate of the y. States,
on the 25th day of July, 1861, adopted re-
solution in the words following, to wit:
ResoIUed, That the present deplorable civil
war has been forced upon the country by the
disunionists of the Southern States, now in
revolt against the constitutional government
now under arms around the capital That in
this national emergency, Congress, banishing
all feeling of mere passion or resentment, will
recolect only its duty to the whole country.
That this war is not prosecuted on our part
in any spirit of oppression, nor for any pur-
pose of conquest or subjugation, no purpose
of overthrowng or interfering with the rights
or established 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, equity and rights of the several
States unimpaired. That as soon as these
objects are accomplished the war ought to
cease.
And whereas these resolutions, though not
joint or concurrent in form, are substantially
Identical. and as such may be regarded as
having expressed the sense of Congress upon
the subject to which they relate; and
Whereas by the proclamation of the 18th
day of June last the insurrection in the State
of Tennessee was declared to have been sur
pressed, the authority of the United States
therein to be undisputed, and such United
States officers as had been duly commissioned
to be in the undisputed exercise Of their Off
cial functions; and
Whereas there now exists no organized
armed resistance of misguided citizens or 9TH
ers to the authority of the United States, in
the States Of Georgia, South Carolina, North
Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, Lou
isiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida, and
the laws can be sustained and enforced there
il, by the proper civil authority, State or
Federal; and the people of the said States are
well and Loyalty disposed, and have conform
ed, or will conform, in their legislation, to the
condition of affairs growing out of the amend
uent to the constitution Of the United States
prohibiting slavery within the limits and ju-
risdiction of the United States and
Whereas, in view of the before recited pre-
misses, it is the manifest determination of the