Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1866-04-11
PROCLAMATION OF PEACE /!
The President Declares the Insurrection in
the Southern States Ended.

WHEREAS, by proclamation on the 18th
and 10Th of April, 1861, 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 there
of obstructed in the States of South Caro-
| lima, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississip-
pi, Louisiana and Texas, by combinations
| too powerful to be suppressed by the ordl-
nary course of Judicial proceedings, or by
| the,powers vested in the Marshal by law; and
WHErEAs, BY another proclamation. made
on the 10th day of August, in the same
approved July, 1861, the inhabitants of
Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, North
Carolina, Tennessee. Alabama, Louisiana,
Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Florida, ex-
cept the inhabitants of that portion of Vir-
ginia lying west of the Allegheny noun
tains, and to such other parts of the other
States before named as might maintain 10
cal adhesion to the Union, and the Constitu-
tion, or might be from time to time occupied
and controlled by the forces of the United
States engaged in the dispersion of the In
surgents, 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
7th, of the same year, the insurrection was
aforesaid, with the exception of certain
specified counties In the State OF Virginia,
and
WHEREAS, By another proclamation,
made on the I'd of April, 1868, in pursuance
of an act of Congress of July 18th, 1861,
the exceptions named in the proclamation
of August l6, 1861, were revoked; and the
inhabitants of the States of Georgia, South
Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Ala
bama, Louisiana, Texas Arkansas, Missis
sippi, Florida, and Virginia, except the
forty-eight counties of Virginia, designated
as West Virginia, and the ports of New Or
leans Key West, Port Royal, and Beaufort,
in South Carolina, were declared to be in a
state of insurrectlon against the U mted
States and - 81"
WHEREAS, The House of Representa-
tives on the 22d of July, 1861 adopted a
resolution in the words following, viz:
Resolued, 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 disun-
ionists of the Southern States, now in re-
volt against the Constitutional government
and in arms around the capital that in this
national emergency Congress, banishlng all
feelings of mere passion or resentment, will
recollect only its duty to the whole country,
that this war is not waged on our part III
any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose
of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of
overthrowing or interfering with the rights
or established institutions of these States,
but to maintain and defend the supremacy
of the Constitution, and to preserve the
Union with all its dignity, equality and
rights of the several States unimpaired, and
that as soon as these objects are accomplish
ed the war ought to cease and
AND WHEREAS, The Senate of the Uni
ted States, on the 25th of July, 1861, adop-
ted resolution in the words following, viz
Resolred, By the Senate of the Congress
of the United States, that the present de
plorable civil war has been forced upon the
country by the disunionists of the Southern
States now in revolt against the Constltu-
tional government and in arms around the
capital; that In this national emergency,
Congress, banishing all feelings of mere
passion or resentment, will recollect only its
duty to the whole country !; that this war Is
not waged on our part in. any spirit OF OPP
preston, nor for any purpose OF conquest or
subjugation, nor for the purpose OF over
throwing or interfering with rights or estab-
lished institutions of those States, but TO
maintain and defend the supremacy OF the
Constitution and to preserve the Union with
all the dignity, equality and rights of the
several States unimpaired, and that as soon
as these objects are accomplished the war
ought to cease.
AND WHEREAS, These resolution, though
not joint or concurrent in form, are substan-
tally identical, and as such, may be regard
ed as having expressed the sense of Con-
gress upon 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 U,