The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-08-23
sense of Congress upon the subject to

Wnlcn thoy relate; and
Whereas, the President of the
United States, by proclamation of the
18th of'June, 1865, declared that the
insurrection in the State of Tennes-
see had been suppressed, and that
the authority of the United States
therein was undisputed, and that such
United States officers as had been
duly commissioned we're in the un-
disturbed exercise OF their official
functions; and
Whereas, the President of the
United States, by fnrther pfoclama-
ton, issued on the I'd day of April,
1866, did promulgate and declare
that there no longer existed any
armed resistance of misguided citi-
zens or others to the authority of the
United States in any or in all the
States before-mentioned, excepting
only the State of Texas; and did
further promulgate and declare that
the laws could be sustained and en-
forced in the several. States before
mentioned, except Texas, by the
proper civil authorities, State or
Federal; and that the people of the
said States, except Texas, are we'll
and Loyalty disposed, and have con-
formed, or will conform in their le-
gislation, to the condition of affairs
growing out of the amendment to
the Constitution of the United States
prohibiting slavery within the limits
and jurisdiction of the United States,
and did further declare, in the same
proclamation, that it is the manifest
determination of the American
people that no State of it's own will
has 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 did further de
clare in the same last t-mentioned pro
clamation that the several aforemcn-
toned States, excepting Texas, had,
IN the matter, given satisfactory cvi-
dence that they acquiesce in this
sovereign and important resolution
of the national unity; and
Whereas the President of the
United States, in the same proclama-
ton, did further declare that it is be-
lieved to be fundamental principle
of Government that the people who
have revolted and who have been
overcome and subdued must either
be dealt with SO as to induce them
voluntarily to become 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 abhorrent to hu-
manity and to freedom; and
Whereas the President did, in the
same proclamation, further declare
that the Constitution of the United
States provides for constituent com
munities only as States, and not as
territories, dependencies, provinces.
or protectorates; and, further, that
such constituent States must neces-
sarily be, and by. the Constitution
and laws of the United States are,
made equal, and placed upon q like
footing as to political rights, immu-
mites, dignities, and power with the
several States with which they are
united; and did further declare that
the observance of political equality
as a principle of right and justice is
we'll calculated to encourage the
people of the before e-named States,
except Texas, to he and to become
more and more constant and perse-
vering in their renewed allegiance;
and
Whereas the President did further
declare that standing armies, military
occupation, martial law, military tri-
bunals, and the suspension of the
writ of hdbeas corpus are, in times Of
peace, dangerous to public liberty,
incompatible with the Individual
rights of the citizen, contrary to the
genius and spirit of our free institu-
tions, and exhaustive of the national
resources, and ought not therefore to
be sanctioned or allowed, except in
cases Of actual necessity, for repelling
invasion or suppressing insurrection
or rebellion; and the President did
further, in the same proclamation,
declare that the policy OF the Govern
ment Of the United States, from the
beginning of the insurrection to it's
overthrow and final suppression, had
been conducted in conformity with
the principles in the last named pro-
clamation recited; and
Whereas the President, in the said
proclamation, of the Both of June.
1866, upon the grounds therein stated,
and hereinbefore recited, did then
and thereby proclaim and declare that
the lnsurrection which heretofore ex-
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