North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1866-04-11
PRoCLAMATIoN BY the PRESIDENT.
p e A Gel A W-LIBERTY.
By tie President Of the United States
A PROCLAMATION.

teenth and nineteenth OF April, one thou
sand eight hundred and sixty one, the Pres
ident ri the United States, in virtue of the
poyIer vested in him by the Constitution
and the laws, declared that the laws of the
United States were opposed, and the exc
cution therof obstructed, in the States of
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida,
Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, by COM
binations too powerful to be suppressed by
the ordinary course of judicial proceedings,
or by the powers vested in the marshals
by law.
And ,chereas, BY another proclamation,
made on the sixteenth day of August,in the
same year, in pursuance of an act of Con-
gress approved July thirteenth, one thous-
and eight hundred and sixty-one, the in
haditants of Georgia, South Carolina, Vir-
ginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama,
Louisiana, 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-
for named as might maintain loyal adhe-
sion to the Union and the Constitution, or
might be from time to time occupied and
controlled by the forces ofthe United States
engaged in the dispersion of insurgents,
wei declared to be in a state of insurrecton
against the United States.
Ana whereas, BY another proclamation
on the first day of July,one thousand eight
hundred and sixty two,issued in pursuance
of an act of Congress approved June sew
enth, in the same year,the insurrection was
declared to be still existing in the States
aforesaid, with the exception of certain spe-
Gifted counties in the State of Virginia.
And aohereas, BY another proclamation,
made on the second day of April, ,one thous-
and eight hundred and sixty-three, in pur-
suance of the act of Congress of July thir-
tccn,one thousand eight hundred and sixty
one,thc exceptions named in the proclama-
tion of August sixteen, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-one, were revoked; and
the inhabitants of the States of Georgia,
South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee
Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mis-
sissippi, Florida, and Virginia, except the
forty-eight counties of Virginia designated
as West Virginia. and the ports of New
Orleans, Key West, Port Royal, and Beau
fort, in South Carolina, were declared to be
in a state of insurrection against the Uni
ted States and whereas the House of Rep
resentatives, on the 22d day Of July, 1861,
adopted resolution in the words following,
viz:
Resolved, 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 Disunionlsts Of the
Southern States, now in revolt against the
Constitutional government and in arms
around the Capitol that in this national en-
ergency Congress, banishing all feelings of
mere passion or resentment, will rec ole CT
only its duty to the whole country that
this war is not waged on our part in any
spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of
overihrowiug or interfering with the rights or
established 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 cf the
several States unimpaired and that as soon
as these objects are accomplished the war
ought to cease.
Il
States,on the 25th day of July, 1881, adopt
ed resolution in the words folowing,viz.:
Resolred. That the present deplorabie civil
war has been forced Ipon the country by the
disunionists of the Southern States now in
revolt against the constitutional government
and in around the Capital /; that in this na-
tional emergency, Congress, banishing all
feelings of mere passion or resentment, will
recollcct only its duty to the whole country (;
that this war 10 not prosecuted on our part
in any spirit of oppression, ncr for any pur,
pose of conquest or suhJugatioD, nor for the
purpose of oy erthrowing or orinterfering with
the rights or established institutions of those
States. but to defend and maintain the supre
macy of the Cons titution and all laws made
in pursuance thereof, and TO preserve the
Union with all the dignity, equality, and
rights of the several States unimpaired and
as soon as these objects are accomplished
the war ought to cease.
And Whereas, These resolutions, though
not joint or concurrent in form, are sub
stantially identical, and as such may be re-
garded as having expressed the sense of
Congress upon the subject to which they
relate.
And Whereas, By my proclamation Of
the 18th day of June last, the insurrection
in the State of Tennessee was declared to
have been suppressed, 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 official functions.
And Whereas, There now exists no Or
ganized armed resistance of misguided citi
zens or others to the authority of the Uni
ted States'in the States of Georgia, South
Carolina, Virginia, North Carolina, Ten
nessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mis-
sissippi and Florida, and the laws can be
sustained and enforced therein by the prop
er civil authority, State or federal, and the
people of the said States are well and loyal
ly disposed, and have conformed, or will
conform, in their legislation, to the condi-
tion of affairs growing out of the amend
ment to the Constitution of the United