Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1866-04-10

RESIDENTS PROCLAMATION.

PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION.
The War Declared at an end-Restoration
Of the Authority Of the Government
The Political Equality OF all the States
Declared.
By the President Of the United States of
Anae,5cG:
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, by proclamation of the 18th and
10th of April, 1861, the President of the Uni
ted States, in virtue of the power vested in him
by the constitution and laws, declared 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 combina-
tons too powerful to be suppressed by the or
binary course of judicial proceedings, or by the
powers vested in the marshals by the law:
Whereas, by another proclamation, made on
the 10th day Of August, in the same year, in
pursuance of an act of Congress, approved Ju-
ly 18th, 1861, the inhabitants of the State Of
Georgia. South Carolina, Virginia, North Car
olna Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas,
Arkansas, Mississippi, and Florida, except the
inhabitants of that part of the State of Virginia
lying West of the Allegany mountains, and such
other parts of that State, and the other States
before named as might be from time to time
occupied and controlled by the forces of the
United States engaged in the dispersion Of the
insurgents, were declared to be in a State Of in
surrection against the United States, and
day of July, 1862, issued in pursuance of an
act Of Congress, approved June It'll, 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 day of April, 1868, in pursuance of the
act of Congress, of July 18th, 1861, the excep-
tons named in proclamation of August 10th,
1861, were revoked, and the inhabitants of the
States Of Georgia. South Carolina, North Caro-
Arkansas, Mississippi Florida and Virginia,
except the forty eight counties of Virginia des-
ignated as West Virginia. and the ports Of New
Orleans, Key West, Port Royal and Beaufort,
in South Carolina, were declared to be still in a
state of insurTection against the United States,
and
Whereas, the House of Representatives, on
the 25th day of July, 1861, adopted aresolution
in the words following, namely:
''Resotued, BY the House Of Representatives,
OF the Congress Of the United States, that the
present deplorable civil war has been forced on
the country, by the disunionists of the Southern
States now In revolt against the constitutional
government, and in arms around the capital,
that In this national emergency Congress, ban
ishing all feeling Of mere passion or resentment,
will recollect only its duty to the whole coun-
try that this war is not waged on our part in
any spirit OF oppression, nor for any purpose Of
conquest or SubJugatlOn, nor purpose of over
throwing or interfering with the rights or estab-
hshed institutions of these States, but to main
tain and defend the supremacy of the Constitu-
ton and to preserve the Union with all its dig
NIFTY, equality, and rights of the several States
unimpaired. And that as soon as those objects
are accomplished, the war ought to cease"
And whereas, the Senate of the United States,
on the 25th day of July, 1861, adopted reso-
luton in the words following, to wit:
ResotUed, That the present deplorable civil
war has been forced upon the country by the
disunionists of the Southern States now in re-
volt against the constitutional Government and
in arms around the capital; that in this
national emergency, Congress, banishing all
feeling Of mere passion or resentment, will rec
ollect only its duty to the whole country. That
this war is not prosecuted on our part in any
spirit OF oppression, nor for any purpose of con-
quest or subjugation, nor for the purpose
of overthrowing Or interfering with the rights
Or established institutions of these States, but
to defend and maintain the supremacy of the
constitution and all laws made in pursuance
thereof, and to preserve the Union with all the
dignity, equity, and rights of the several States
unimpaired. That as soon as these acts are
accomplished the war ought to cease
And whereas these resolutions, though not
joint or concurrent in form, are substantially
identical, and as such may be regarded as hay
ing expressed the sense of Congress upon the
subject to which they relate and
Whereas, by the proclamation Of the 18th day
of June last, the instruction of the State of
Tennessee was declared to have been suppressed,
be undisputed, and such United States officers
as had been duly commissioned to be in undis-
puted exercise of their official functions and
Whereas there now exists no organized armed
resistance of misguided citizens or others to the
authority of the United States in the States of
Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, North Car
DINA, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkan-
sas, Mississippi, Florida, and the laws can be
sustained and enforced therein by the proper
civil authority, State or Federal; and the peo-
pie of the said States are well and Loyalty dis
posed, and have CONFIRMED, Or will conform, in
their legislation, to the condition of affairs grow
ing out of the amendment to the Constitution
Of the United States prohibiting slavery within
the limits and jurisdiction of the United States;
and
Whereas, in view of the before recited prem
Uses, it is the manifest determination of the
American people that no State of its own will
has the right or power to go out of or separate
itself from, or be separated from the American
Union, and that, therefore, each State ought to
remain and constitute an integral part Of the
United States and
Whereas the people of the several before men
toned States have, in the manner aforesaid,
given satisfactory evidence that they acquiesce
in the sovereign and important restoration Of
national unity and
Whereas it is believed to be fundamental
principle of government that people who have
revolted and who have been overcome and sub
dued, must be dealt with so as to induce them
voluntarily to become friends, or else they must
be held by absolute military power, or devasta-
ted SO as to prevent them from ever again do