Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-04-11
A PROCLAMATION OF PEACE.

$ the President of the United States, il
virtue OF the power vested in him by the
p constitution and the laws, declared tina
the laws of the United States were Cd
: posed, and the execution thereof obstruct
ed in the States of South Carolina
Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi
> Louisiana, and Texas, by combination.
TOO powerful to be suppressed by the or
binary course of judicial proceedings. oil
by the power vested in the marshals by
/ law. and
Whereas, By another proclamation
made on the sixteenth day of August, in
the same year, in pursuance % an act Of
Congress, approved July Is, 1851, the in
habitants of Georgia, South Carolina,
Virginia, North Carolina. Tennessee. Al
ALBANIA, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, MIS-.
sissippI, and Florida, except the inhabi-
tants 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 a loyal adhesion to the Union
and the Constitution, or might be from
time to time occupied and controlled by
the forces of the United States engaged
in the disposition of insurgents. were de
clare1 to be iu a state of insurrection
against the United States; and
Whereas. By another proclamation on
the list day of July. 1862, issued in pur-
suance of an act of Congress, approved
June 9TH in the same year. the insurrec-
ton was declared to be still existing in
the States aforesaid, with the exception
of certain specified counties in the State
of Virginia and,
Wha-ooC py onafhan r0o1aHa,R,A
made on the I'd day of April, 1868, in pur-
suance of an act of Congress of July 18th,
1861, the exceptions named in the proc
Iamaiion of August 10th. 1861. were re,
voked, and the inhabitants of the States
of Georgia, South Carolina, North Caro-
lima, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana.
Texas. Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida and
Virginia, except the forty-eight counties
of Virginia, and the ports of New Orleans.
Key West. Port Royal, and Beaufort, in
South Carolina, were declared to be- in a
state of Instruction against the United
States /: and,
Whereas, The House of Representa-
tives on the 22d day of July, 1862,
adopted a resolution in the words follow
ing, viz:
Resolved, By the House of Representa-
tives of the United States, that the pres
ent deplorable civil war has been forced
upon the country by the disunionists of.
the Southern States now in revolt
against the constitutional government
and in arms around the Capital, that
in this national emergency Con-
gress, banishing all feelings of mere pas
sion or resentment, will recollect only its
duty to the whole country that war is
not waged on our part in any spirit of op
preston, nor for any purpose of conquest
or ~subjugation, nor for the purpose of
overthrowing or interfering with the
rights or established institutions of those
States. but to maintain and defend the
supremacy of the Constitution, and to
preserve the Union with all the dignity.
equality and rights of the several States
unimpaired, and that as soon as these OBJ
iects are accomplished the wal ought to
cease and.
Whereas, The Senate of the U. s., on
the 18th day of July. 1861, adopted a res
olution in the words following:
Resolved. That the present deplorabIe
civil war has been forced upon the coun
try by the disunionists of the Southern
States now in revolt against The Constitu-
tional Government and in arms around
the capital that in this national emer-
gency Congress, banishing all feelings OF
mere passion or resentment, will recolleci
only its duty to the whole country that
this war is not prosecuted on our part in
any spirit of oppression nor for any pur
pose of conquest or s%uhjugatiou. nor for
the purpose of overthrowing or interfer-
ing with the rights or established instltu-
tions of those States, but to defend and
maintain the supremacy of the Constitu
ton and all laws made 10 pursuance there
of, and to preserve the Union with all
the dignity. equality and rights of the
several States ~unimpaired hat as soon
as those objects are accomplished the war
ought to cease /; and
Whereas, These resolutions, though
not Joint or concurrent in form, are SUD-
s~tanIially identical, and as such may be
regarded as having expressed the sense
of Congress upon the subject to which
they relate; and
Whereas, By my proclamation of the
18th of June last the instruction in the
State of Tennessee was declared to have
been suppressed, the authority of the
United States therein to be undisputed
and such United States officers as had
been duly commissioned to be in the un.
disputed exercise of their official func-
lions; and
Whereas, There now exists no organ
lied armed resistance of misguided cit
liens or others to the authority of the
United States in the States of Georgia,
South Carolina, Virginia. North Carolina,
Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisi
ana, Mississippi and Florida, and the
laws can be sustained and enforced there
in by the proper civil authority. that the
Federal States and the people Of the said
States are well and Loyalty disposed, and
have conformed or will conform in their
legislation to the condition of affairs
growing out Of the amendment to the
Constitution of the United States, pIohib
iting slavery within the limits and juris
diction of the United States; and
Whereas, In view of the before recited
premises, il is the manifest determine
ton Of the American people that no State
of its own will has the right or power to
go out or separate itself from or be sep
arated from the American Union, and
that therefore such State ought to re-
main and continue an integral part of
the United States; and
Whereas, The people CT the several
before mentioned States, have in the
manner aforesaid given satisfactory eV-
idence of their acquiescence in this SOW
ereign and important resolution of the
national unity; and
Whereas. it is believed to be a funda-
principle of government that PEG
pie who have revolted and who have
been overcome and subdued, must either
be dealt with so as to induce them volun-
tsrily to become friends. or else they
must be held by absolute military power
or 20 devastated so as to prevent them
ever again doing harm as enemies
which last named policy is abhorrant to
humanity and freedom; and
Whereas, The Constitution Of the Uni
ted States provides for constitutional
only as States and NOT as
Territories, dependencies, provinces, or
protectorates; and whereas, such consti-
Iutent States must necessarily be, and by
the Constitution and laws of the United
are made equals, and placed on g
like footing as TO political rights, immu
mites. dignity and power with The seV.