The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-04-07

missioned to be in the uninterrupted exer-
else of their official functions;
AND WHEREAS, There now exists no or
gained armed resistance of misguided citi-
zens or others to the authority of the United
States in the States of Georgia, South-Ca
alma, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee,
Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi,
Florida, and the laws can be sustained and
enforced therein by the proper civil authori-
| ty, State or Federal; and the people of the
said States are well and loyalty disposed,
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 re-
cited premises, it is the manifest determina-
ton 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 separa-
ted 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
aforementioned States have, in the manner
aforesaid, given satisfactory evidence that
they acquiesce in this sovereign and impor-
tant resolution of national unity;
AND WHEREAS, As it is believed to be a
fundamental principle of government that
people who have revolted, and who have
been overcome and subdued, must be dealt
with so as to induce them, voluntarily, to be-
come friends or else they must be held by
absolute military power or devastated, so as
to prevent them from ever again doing harm
as enemies, which last named policy is alb
horrent to humanity and freedom;
AND WHEREAS, The Constitution of the
United States provides for constitutional
communities only as States, and not as ter
| ritories, dependencies, provinces or protec-
torates;
AND WHEREAS, Such constituted States
must necessarily be, and by the Constitution
and laws of the United States are made
equal, and are placed upon like footing as
to political rights, immunities, dignity and
power with the several States with which
they are united;
AND WHEREAS, The observance of politi-
cal equality as principal of right and JUS
tice is well calculated to encourage the peo-
pie of the aforesaid States to be and become
more and more constant and persevering in
their renewed allegiance;
AND WHEREAS, Standing armies, militia
ry occupation, martial law, military tribu--
nails, and the suspension of the privilege of
the writ of ha6eas corpus, in times of peace,
endanger the public liberty, are incompatible
with the individual rights of the citizen,
COulrdTy W Gue ScilIuS SDIlG VI our 1Tee
institutions, and exhaustive of the national
resources, and ought not therefore to be
sanctioned or allowed, except for cases of
actual necessity for repelling invasion or
suppression of instruction or rebellion;
AND WHEREAS, The policy of the govern
ment of the United States, from the begin
ming of the instruction to its overthrow and
final suppression, has been in conformity
with the principals herein set forth and emu
merated:
Now, therefore, I, ANDREW JOHNSON,
President Of the United States, do hereby
proclaim and declare that the insurreetion
which heretofore existed in the States of
Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, North
Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana,
Arkansas, Mississippi and Florida, is at an
end, and is henceforth to be so regarded.
In testimony whereof, have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, the
49, second day of April, in the year of
: L. S. our Lord, One thousand eight hun
~ dred and sixty-six, and of the indie
pendence of the United States of America the
ninetieth.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
By the Presidents
w. II. SEWARD, Secretary of State.