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THE PRESIDENTS PKOCLA-
NATION.
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Dus.-Thc War Mt an End.
Nv the President of the Unite''
States--A Proclamation.

pus.-Thc War Mt an End.
the President of the United
Statcs--A Proclamation.
WASHINGTON, April ..
WHEREAS, BY proclamation on the
18th and 18th ofApril, 1861, the fres,,
dent of the United States, IN virtue OF
the power vested in him BY the Constl-
tuition and the laws, declared that the
laws of the United States were opposed
and the execution thereof DISTRACTED
in the States Of South Carolina, Geor-
ola, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi
and Texas, by combinations
too powerful to be suppressed by inc
ordinary course Of judicial proceedings
or by the powers vested in the Mar
shals by law and
WHEREAS, BY another proclamation
made on the 10Th day Of August, in the
same year, in pursuance OF an act OF
Congress approved July 18th, 1851, the
inhabitants Of Georgia, South Caroli
ma, Virginia, North Carolina, Tcnnes'
see, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Ar
kansas, Mississippi and Florida eX,
ceYtlng the inhabitants OF that part o.
the State of Virginia lying west OF the
Allegheny mountains, and to such Gun
or parts of that State and the other
States named, as might maintain u 10y
al adhesion to the / Mon and the Con-
stitution, or might be from time to
time occupied and controlled by the
forces of the United States, engaged Ill
the dispersion of insurgents, were de-
clarcd to be in q state OF instruction
against the United States; and
WHEREAS, BY another proclamation
of the LIST day Of July, 1862, issued in
pursuance of an act OF Congress, APP
proved January 7tl, in the same year,
The instruction was declared to be
still existing in the States aforesaid,
with the exception Of certain specified
counties in the State Of Virginia and
WnlREAs, by another proclamation
made the I'd day of April, 1868, in pur-
suancc of the act Of Congress OF july
18th, 1851, the exceptions named IN the
proclamation of August 10th, 1861,
were revoked, and the inhabitants OF
the States OF Georgia, South Carolina,
North Carolina, tennessee, Alabama
Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mlsslsslp-
pi, Florida and Virginia, except the
forty eight counties Of Virginia desig.
mated West Virginia, and the ports oI
New Orleans, key West, Port Royal
and Beaufort, 5. C., were declared to b,
in Il state Of rebellion against the I'M
ted States and
WHEREAS, The House of Reprcsen.
t~ativcs, On the I'D of July, 1861, adop-
ted resolutions in the words following
"Resolged, BY the House Of Repre-
sentatives OF the Congress Of the Uni
ted States, That the present deplorable
civil war has been forced upon the
country by the disunionists of the
Southern States in rebellion
against the Constitutional Govern,
mcnt, and in arms around the Capital
that IA this national emergency, Con
gress, banishing all feelings Of resent
ment, will do only its duty to the whole
country; that the wal is not waged OF
our part in any spirit Of oppression
nor lor any purpose ofconquest or sub
jugation, nor for the purpose of over
throwing orinterlcring with established
Institutions of those States, but t.
maintain and defend the supremacy o
the Constitution, and to preserve til,
Union with all the dignity, equality an(
rights ofthe several States unimpaired
and so soon as these objects are accom-
plished the war oughtto cease"
And, WHEREAS, These resolutions
though not joint o~rconcurrent inform
are substantial, and may be regarded
as having expressed the sense Of Con
gress upon the subject to which the,
relate; and
WHEREAS, BY my proclamation Q
the 18th Of June last, the insurrectiO
in the State Of Tennessee was declare
to have been suppressed, the authorit
of the United States therein to be undi:
puted, and such United States officer
as had been duly commissioned to b
in the u%ndisputed exercise of their OIL
cial functions: and
WHEREAS, There now exists no o.
gained armed resistance OF misguide
citizens, nor others to the authority {
the United States, in the States {
Georgia, South Carolina, Virgins
North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabam'
Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, lie!
as, and Florida, and the laws a
sustained and enforced therein b
proper civil authority, State or Fedora
and the people of the said States al
well and loyalty disposed, and hay
conformed, or will conform, in the
Legislature to the condition of affair
growing out of the amendment to I'll
Constitution of the United States pr
hibiting slavery within the limits ar
jurisdiction of the United States; ant
WHEREAS, In view of the before r
cited premises it is the manifest dete
mination of the American people tn
no State of its own will has the right
power to go out of, or seraat, itst
from, or be separated from the Anne
can Union, and that, therefore, ca
State ought to remain and constitute
integral part Of the United ota'e
and
WHEREAS, The people OF the se'
raj before mentioned States have IN
manner aforesaid, given satisfactory
idence that they acqniesce IN this Il
t portant resolution; and =.
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