The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-04-06

not JOINT or concurrent in form. are sub
e'sntial. and may be regarded as having
expressed the sense Of Congress- upon the
subject TO which they relate; and
Whereas, By my proclamation of the 9Th
of June last the insarrection ia the State of
Tennessee was declared to have been sup
pressed. the authority Of the United States
therein to be undispu,ed and such United
States officers as had been duly commits
stoned to be IN the undisputed exercise Of
their official functions; and
Whereas. there now exists no organized
armed resistqsce OF misguided CT liens. nor
Others 20 the authority Of the United States.
in The States of Georgia, South Carolina.
Virginia. North bCarolina. Texas, Ala
bania. Louisiana. Arkansas, Mississippi and
Florida. and the laws can be sustained and
enforced therein by proper civil authority,
State or Federal. and the people of The said
States are well and loyalty disposed, and
have CONFIRMED, or win conform, in their
Legislatures. to me condition of affairs
growing out Of the American Constitution
of the United States prohibiting slavery
within the limits and jurisdiction of the
United States; and
Whereas, 10 view of tbs before recited
premises, it is the manifest determination
Of the American people that no State, of It's
own will. has the right or power to go out
Of, OF seperate itself from, or be separated
from the American Union, and that, there
fore, each State ought to remain and con-
stitute an integral part of the United States;
and
Whereas. The people Of the several be-
aforementioned States, have, in the manner
Aforesaid, given satisfactory evidence that
they acquiesce in this important resolution
of the national Union; and
Whereas, II is balieved to be the funda-
mental principle of the Government that tie
people who have revolted, and who have
been overcome and subdued. must be dealt
with, 30 as to induce them to become friends,
or else they ~ ust be held by absolute mill
tary power SO as to prevent them from ever
again doing harm as enemies, which last
named policy is abhorrent to humanity and
freedom; and
Whereas, The Constitution of the United
States provides for Constitutional com
pact CITY as States. and not as Territories,
and provides prOtectorates; and
Whereas, By such Constitution the States
must necessarily be, and by The Constitu-
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equals. and placed on like footing as to
political rights, in dignity and favor with
the several States with which they are unit
ed: and
Whereas, The observance of political
equality as principle of right and justice.
is we'll calculated to encourage the people
of the States 10 be and become more content
and persevering in their renewal of thsir
allegiance; and
Whereas. Standing armies. military oc-
cuparion. martial law. military tribunals.
and the suspension of the writ of habeas
corpus are. in time Of peaee, dangerous to
The public interest. and incompatible wfh
the Individual right of citizens. contrary to
the genius and spirit Of our free institutions,
and exhaustion of the. national resources.
and ou~ht not. therefore, to be sanctioned
OF allowed. except in case Of war. orrepell-
ing invasion, OF suppressing surreetiou
or rebellion; and, whereas, the policy of
tie Government OF the United States. from
lie be Inning of the nsurreclion to lis final
1.Eleen- in conformity with
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