The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1866-04-13
PROCLAMATION BY TIE EPRESI-
DENT.
National Peace and Restored Union
Officially Declared.


By tie President Of the United Stats, Il
Proclamation
WHEREAS, BY proclamation on tie 10Th
and 18th OF April, 1861, the president OF
the United States in virtue Of the power
vested in him by The constitution and the
laws, declared that the laws OF the United
States were opposed and the execution
thereof obstruclec in the states of South
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Miss
issippi, Louisiana and Texas, By comhiua-
tons too powerful to be suppressed BY the
ordinary course Of Judicial proceedings, or
by the powers vested in the marshals b.
Law and
WHEREAs, BY another proclamation,
made on the 10Th day Of August, in the
same year, in pursuance Of an act Of con
gress, approved July 18th 1861, the ms
hat.,ants of Georgia, South Carolina, Vir-
GINA, North Carolina, Tennessee, Ala
bama. Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Missis
sippi and Florida, except the inhabitants
of that part Of the state OF Virginia, lying
west of the Allegheny mountains, and to
such other parts Of that state and the other
states before named, as might maintain a
loyal cohesion to the Union and the Con
s.itut.on, or might be from time TO time
occupied and controlled by the forces OF
the United States, engaged in tbs DISPOSE
tion of insurgents, were declared to be in
a state Of Instruction against the United
States (; and
WHEREAS, By another proclamation Oh
the lst DAY of July, 1862, Issued ia pursu>
"nce OF an act otcongress, approved June
It'll, in the same year, the Instruction
was declared to he stlIi existing in the
states aforesaid. with the exception Of Ger
tain specified counties ia he state of Viz.
glnia; aud
WHEREAS BY another proclamation
made Oh the 2. day Of ApiiI. 1868, IN
pursuance OF the act OF congress of July
18Th, 1861, the exceptions named in The
proclamation Of August IGth, 1861, were
revoked and the Inhabitants of the states
Of Georgia, South Carolina North Carol
ina, Tennessee. Alabama, Louisiana, Tex
as, Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida and
h7iuidi t@NSI tIS tbi -eiEb 'tuuttoS
of Virginia designated AS West Virginia,
and ;he ports OF New Orleans, Key
West. Port Royal, and Beaufort, South
Carolina were declared to be il state of
insurrection against the United States !;
and
WHEREAS, The house Of representatives
on the Oh day of July. 1861, adopted
resolution in the words following, viz
ResOlpcd, By the house OF representa-
tiyes OF the congress OF the United States,
that tie present dePIorabie civil war has
been forced upon the country bg the dis
union,ts Of the southern states, how in
revolt against the constitutional govern
ment OF the United States, and in arm.
around the capital that in this national
emergency, congress banishlng all feelings
OF mere passion or resentment, viii reco.
lect only lis duty to the whole country
;hat this war is not waged on our part in
any spirit Of oppression, nor for any pur>
pose Of conquest or sutjugalion, nor for
Tie purpose Of overthrowing or interfering
with the rights Or established institutions
Of those states, but to maintain and dcfenG
the supremacy Of the constitution and pre-
serve The Uuion with all its equality aud
dignity Of the several states unitnpairei,
and that As soon as these objects are ac-
compiished, the war ought to cease and
WHEREAS, These resolutions, Though
not Joint or concurrent in form, are sub
atanlialiy Identical, and as such may be re-
garded as having expressed the sense OF
congress upon tue subject TO which they
relate and
WHEREAS, BY my proclamation Of The
Ism OF June last, the instruction IN the
state Of Tennessee was declared to have
been suppressed, the authority OF the Uni~
ted States therein to be urdiSpnted, and
such officers as had been deputed to the
unrestricted exercise Of their official tunc
lions and
WHEREAS, There now exists no organ
lied armed resistance of misguided ci.i-
zens or others to the authority Of the In
tied States in the stale OF Georgia Virgin
ia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tens
nessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas,
Mississippi, Texas and Florida, and the
laws can he sustained and enforced there
in by proper civil authority, state or feds
eral, and the people of the said states are
well and Loyalty disposed and have con-
formed OF will conform in their legislation
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 Uuited
States: and
WHEREAS, In consideration ofthese te-
fore cited premises, it is the manifest de-
termination of the American people that
no state of It's own will has right to 90
out of, or seperate itself, or be separated
from the American Uuion, and that there,
fore each state ought to remain and COO
sti.ute an integral part OF the United
States and
WHEREAS, People ofthe several before
mentioned states have, IN the manner
aforesaid, given satisfactory evidence that
they acquiesce in this sovereign and i'm
portant revolution Of the national unity
and
WHEREAS. It is believed to be tie
fundamental principle Of the government
that he people who have revoIted, and
have been overcome and subdued, must
be so dealt with as to induce them voun>
tarily to become friends. or else they must
be held by absolute military power, or