The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-04-05

We publish below very important
proclamation from President johnson,
in relation to the States recently in re-
bellion. ......
This may be regarded as the finish
ing step in the Presidents plan of res
toration. He simply proclaims that the
rebellion has ceased, and that the States,
having been re-organized, are in con-
dition to be admitted to their places in
the Congress whenever they shall pre-
sent themselves in the persons of loyal
members. He has discharged his duty.
1t now remains for the Congress to COM
plete the work. That body, as the
President has heretofore frequently de-
clared, is the sole judge of the election
and qualifications of its members. But
one thing, therefore, is now wanting,
and that is, such members elect to Con-
gress as can take the prescribed oath.
1t must not be supposed that this
proclamation restores the government.
The Union is not yet what it was pre-
viously to the attempted secession of
the Southern States. Not even the re-
moval of the troops and the restoration
of the habeas corpus, would fully and
entirely restore the States to their for
mer places. a step of this sort would
render them more free in their own in
ternal affairs, but it is for the Congress
to complete the work of restoration by
admitting members elect to Congress
to their seats. When this will be done
no one can foresee.
This proclamation has been looked
for for some time, and it is not at all
unexpected to those who have been
close observers of passing events.
WASHINGTON, April 2-The President has
issued Proclamation reciting former Procla-
nations, and also quoting the resolutions
passed by each House of Congress in July,
1861, namely:
ResOlced, That the present deplorable
civil war has been forced upon the country
by the dsuhionists of the Southern States
now in revolt against the Constitutional
Government, and in arms around the CAPT.
tall that in this national emergency, that
SOuSTeSS, DdniSuinS all IeeilnS OF mere pas
sion or resentment, will recollect only its du-
ty to the whole country that this war is not
waged on our part in any spirit of oppres-
sion, nor for any purpose of conquest or sub
jugation, nor for the purpose of overthrow
ing or interfering with the rights or estab-
lished institutions of those States, but to
maintain and defend the supremacy of the
Constitution, and to preserve the Union,
with all its rights, dignity, and equality of
the several States unimpaired; and that, as
soon as those objects are accomplished, the
war ought to cease"
These resolutions, though not joint or CON-
current in form, are substantially Identical,
and as such may be regarded as having ex-
pressed the sense of Congress upon the sub
ject to which they relate.
There now exists no organized armed re-
sistance of misguided citizens or others to
the authority of the United States in the
States of Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia,
North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louis
lana, Arkansas, Mississippi and Florida, and
the laws can be sustained and enforced there
in by the proper civil authority, State or
Federal, and the people of the said States
are well and Loyalty disposed, and have con-
formed, or will conform in their legislation,
to the condition of IF irs growing out of the
to the Constitution of the United
States prohibiting slavery within the limits
and jurisdiction of the United States.
For these and other reasons, the President
proclaims and declares that the instruction
which existed in the above named States is
at an end, and is hereafter to be so regarded.