The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-04-04
OFFICIAL DECLARATION OF PEACE,
WITHDRAWAL OF MARTIAL LAW
The Habeas Corpus Restored.
The South declared in the Union.

WASHINGTON, April 2.
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
A Proclamation.
WHEREAS, By proclamation on the 10Th and
10th of April, one thousand eight hundred and
sxty-on the president of the United States, in
virtue OF the power vested in him by the consti-
tuition and the laws declared that the laws of the
United States we're opposed, aad the execution
thereof obstructed in the states of South Carroll
ma, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Lou
isana, ami Texas, by combinations too powerful
to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judi-
cal 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 pur.
suance of an act of congress, approved July Is
1861. the inhabitants of Georgia, South Carroll
ma, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alaba-
ma, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, and
Florida, except the inhabitants of that part of
| the state of Virgins lying west of the Allegheny
mountains, and to such other parts of that state
| and the other states before named as might
| maintain loyal adhesion to the Union and the
| constitution, or might be- from time to time, &C.
"
States, engaged in the disposition of insurgents,
| were declared to be in state of insurrecton
against the United States and,
WHEREAS, By smother proclamation, on the
first day Of July. 1862, issued in pursuance of
| act of congress approved juno Z, in the same
year, the insurrecton was declared to be still ex-
listing in the states aforesaid, with the exception
OF certain specified counties in the state of Vir-
| gina; 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 exceptions named
in the proclamation of August 16, 1861, were
| revoked, and the inhabitants of the states Of
Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Texas,
Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida, and Virginia, ex.
cept the forty-eight counties of Virginia desig-
mated as West Virginia, and the ports of New
| Orleans, Key West, Port Royal aud Beaufort in
| South Carolina, were declared to be in a state OF
insurrection against the United States and
WHEREAS, The house of representatives,, on
the 22d of July, 1861, adopted resolution in the
words following, viz;
Resolred by the house ofrepresenatires of the con
greSs of the United States, That the present de-
plorable civil war has been forced upon the coun.
try by disunionists of the southern states, now
| revolt against the constitutional government o.
the United States, and in arms around the capital
that in this national emergency congress, Danish
ing all feelings of mere passion or resentmen mt
will recoliect only its duty the whole country
that this war 10 not waged our part in any spir
1t OF oppression, nor for any purpose of conques
or suojugatlon, nor for the purpose of overthrow
ing nor interfering with the rights esta blisheC
institutions of those states, but to maintain anc
defend the supremacy of the constitution and pre-
serve the Union with all its equality and the dig
nifty OF the several states unimPared, and that a.
soon as these objects accomplished, the wa
| ought to cease 20 and
WHEREAS, The senate of the United States, OF
the 10th of July, 1861, adopted resolution IL
the words following, viz: (same as above } ant
WHEREAS, These resolutions, though not join,
or concurrent in form, are substantially identi
cal, and as such may be regarded as having ex
pressed the sense of congress upon the subject te
which they relate and
WHEREAS, By my proclamation of the 18th o
June last the insurrecton in the state of Tennes
see was declared to have been suppressed, tht
authority of the United States therein to be un
disputed, and such officers as had been deputies
to the unrestricted exercise Of their official func
| tions and
armed resistance of misguided citizens or others
to the authority of the United states in the staes
of Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Car
DINA, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas
Mississippi, Texas, and Florida, and the lava car
be sustained and enforced therein BY proper civil