Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-08-29


doing harm as enemies, which last-named
policy is abhorrent to humanity and TO Tree
do:= and -,
Whereas the President did, IN the same
further declare that the Con
stifution of the United States provides 1or
constituent communities only as-States3and
mot as territories, dependencies, provinces, or
protectorates and, further, that such constl-
tnent States must necessarily he, and blythe
ems, itution and laws of the. United States
are. made .qual, and placed upon alike foot
IN o as to political rights, immunities, dignl'
lies and power with the several States with
which they are united and did further de-
clare that the observance Of political equality
as a principle of right aid justice is well cai-
.ulated to encourage the people of tie be-
,fore- named States, except Texas, 10 be and
10 bee, ME more and more constant and .perse-
yering in theirrcnewed allegiance ;gand n
Wber, as the. President did further declare
that standing armies, military occupation,
martial law, military tribunals, and the sus-,
pension of the writ of habeas corpus are in
times of peace, dangerous to public liberty,
Incompatible with the Individual rights of
the citizen, contrary to the genius and spirit
of our free institutions, and exhaustive of the
national resources: and ought not therefore
to be sanctioned or allowed, except in cases
of actual necessity, for repelling invasion or
sppressing insurreution or rebellion and ther
President did further, in the same proclama-
tion, declare that the policy of the Govern
ment Of the United States, from the beginning
Of rhe usurrection to its overthrow and final
suppression, had been conducted in conlorn'
ty with the principles in the last named pro-
c!ama;ion rected and
Whereas the President, in the said proca.
nation, of the 30in Of June, lSGG upon the
grounds therein stated, and hereinbelore re-
cited, did then and thereby proclaim and de-
clare that the instruction which heretofore
existed in the several States before named,
except in Texas, was at an end, ard are hence
forth to be so regarded ; and
Whereas. subsequently 10 the second day
of April. 1866 the iusurrection III the State
Of Texas las been completely and evs srywhere
suppressed AID cEdcd, and tic auth rily Of
the United States has been successfully and
completely established in the said State OF
Texas, and now remaias therein unresisted
and u:.ds,iLtcd, and suc.. Of tie proper Uni
ted States G!ii:ers as lave been duly comulis
sioned within the limits Of tic said State are
now 10 the ui!disturbed exercise of their Off,
C al func.io:s; and
Whereas the laws can. be nov sustained
and enforced in the said State Of Texas by
tie proper civil authority, State or Federal,
and the people OF the said Stale Of Texas,
like the, people of The other States before
named, are well and Loyalty disposed, and
have conlormed, or will conform in tLeir leg
isiatior, to the condition Of affairs growing
out of the amendment Of the Constitution OF
the United States prohibiting slavery within
the limits and jurisdiction ofthe United States;
and
Whereas, all the reasons and conclusions
set forth in regard to tie several States there
in specially named now apply equally and in
all respects to the State Of Texas, as well as
the other States which have been involved IN
insnrrectipn; and
Whereas, adequate provision has been made
by military orders to eufDrce the execution
of the acts oi Congress, aid the civil author:-
tics, and secn.e obedience to the Constitution
and laws Of the United States within the
State Of Texas, if a resort to military force
for said purpose should at any time become
necessary:
Now, therefore, I, Andrew Johuson, Prcsi-
dent of tho United States, do hereby proclaim
and declare chat the insurrection which here.
tofore existed in the State Of Texas is at an
end, and is hcnceforth SO regarded in that
State, as in the other States before named, in
which the said insprrection has been proclaim
ed to be at an end by the aforesaid proclama
ton OF the Cd day Of April, 1866.
Aud DO further proclaim that the said in.
surrection is at an end, and that peace, order,
tranquility and civil authority now exist in
and throughout the whole Of the United States
Of America.
In testimony whereof have hcreunto sci
my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed. Done. at
the city of Washington this twentieth
u. S. day of August, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixty,
six, and Of the independence of the Uni
ted States Of America the ninety-frst.
By the Presidents
ANDREW JOHNSON.
W. II. SEWARD, Sec'y of State.