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Proclamation by the President.
Official Declaration of Peace.

Proclamation by the President.
Official Declaration OF Peace.
WASHINGTON, April 2.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNlTED STATES.
4 Proclamation.
WHEREAS, By proclamations on the 18th
and 10Th OF April, one thousand eight hum
bred and sixty-one, the President of the
United States, in virtue Of the power vested
in him by the Constitution and laws, de-
clared that the laws of the United States
were opposed, and the execution thereof
INSTRUCTED. 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 proceedings, or by the
powers 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 Con-
gress, approved July IS, 1861, the inhabit-
ants of Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia,
North Carolina, Tennessee Alabama, Louis
lana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, and
Florida, except the inhabitants 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 be-
fore named as might maintain loyal adhes
ion 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 disposition of insurgents,
were declared to be in a state Of insurrec-
ton against the United States; and
WHEREAS, BY another proclamation, on
the first day Of July, 1862, issued in pur-
suance of an act of Congress approved June
Z, 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 of April, 1868, in pursuance of an
act of Congress Of July Is, 1861, the ex
emptions named in the proclamation Of
August 16, 1861, were revoked, and the in
habitants of the States Of Georgia, South
Carolina, North Carolina, Texas, Arkansas,
Mississippi, Florida, and Virginia, except
the forty eight counties Of Virginia desig
mated as West Virginia, and the ports of
New Orleans, Key West, Port Royal and
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to be in state of instruction against the
United States and
WHEREAS, The House of Representatives,
on the 22d of July, 1861, adopted resolu-
ton in the words following, viz:
Resolved 6y 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 disunionists of the
Southern States, now in revolt against the
constitutional Government of the United
States, and in arms around the capital that
in this national emergency Congress, ban
ishing all feelings of mere passion or resent
ment, will recollect only it's 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 subjugation,
nor for the purpose of overthrowing nor
interfering with the rights or established
institutions of those States, but to maintain
and defend the supremacy Of the Constitu-
ton and preserve the Ur IN with all its
equality and the dignity 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 United
States, ON the Goth of July, 1861, adopted a
resolution in the words following, viz
(same as above); and
WHEREAS, These resolutions, though not
joint or concurrent in form, are substanti-
ally identical, and as such may be regarded
as having express ed the sense Of Congress
upon the subject to which they relate and
WHEREAS. By my proclamation of the
18th of June last, the instruction in the
State of Tennessee was declared to have
been suppressed, the authority of the Uni
ted States therein to be undisputed, and
such officers as had been deputed, to be in
the unrestricted exercise of their official
functions and
WHEREAS, There now exists no organic
ed armed resistance of misguided citizens
or others to the authority of the United
States in the States of Georgia, Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee,
Alabama Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, /
Texas, and Florida, and the laws can be
sustained and enforced therein by proper
civil authority, State or Federal, and the
pc ople Of the said States are well and 10y |
ally disposed, and have conformed or will /
conform in their legislation to the condition
Of affairs growing out Of the amendment to
the Constitution Of the United States pro-
hibiting slavery within the limits and juris-
diction Of the United States; and
WHEREAS, In consideration of these be-
fore cited premises, it the manifest de-