Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-04-12
President Johnson Proclaims It.

WASHINGTON, April z, 1863.
By the President of the United States:
PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, By proclamation on the ff-
teenth and Dineteenth of April, one thous.
and eight hundred and sixty. one, the Pres
ideDt 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
exercise thereof obstructed, in the States
of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas,
by combinations 100 powerful to be sup.
pressed by the ordinary of course judicial
proceedings, or by the powers vested in
the Marshals by law: and,
Whereas, By another proclamation made
on the sixteenth day Of August, in the same
year, in pursuance of an act of Congress,
approved July thirteenth, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty.on the inhabit-
ants of Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia,
North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Loui.
siana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi 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 be-.
fore named az might maintain loyal ad.
hesion 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 dispersion of insur.
gents, were declared to be in a state of in
surrection against the United States; and,
Rhereas, BY another proclamation on
the first day of July, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty two, issued iu pursuance
of an act of Congress, approved June sew
euth, in the same year, the iusurrection was
declared to be still existing in the States
aforesaid, with the exception of certain
specified counties in the State of Virginia !;
and,
Whereas, By another proclamation made
on the second day of April, one thousand
eight buudred and sixty. three, in pursu-
auce of the act of Congress of July thir-
teenth, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-oDe, the exceptions named in the proc
lauation of August sixteenth, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-one we're revoked,
and the inhabitants of the States of Geor-
gia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Ten
nessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkan-
sas, Mississippi, Florida and Virginia, ex.
cept the forty eight counties of Virginia
designated as West Virginia, and the ports
of New Orleans, Key West, Port Royal,
and Beaufort in South Carolina, were de,
clared to be in state of insurrection a.
gainst the United States; and,
Whereas, the House of Representatives,
on the twenty second day of July, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty. .one, a.
dopted resolution in the words following,
viz:
Resolved, BY the House Of Representa-
tives OF the Congress OF the United States,
That the present deplorable civil war has
been forced upon the country by the dis.
unionists of the Southern States, now in
revolt against the Constitutional Govern.
ment and in arms around the capital, that
in this national emergency, Congress, ban
ishing all feelings of mere passion or re.
sentiment, will recolleot only its duty to the
whole country; that this war is not Waged
on our part in any spirit of oppression nor
for any purpose of conquest or subjugation,
nor for the purpose of overthrowing or in.
terfering with the rights or established in
stitutions of those States, but to maintain
and defend the supremacy of the Constitu-
ton, and to preserve the Union with all the
dignity, equality and rights of the several
States unimpaired; and, that, as soon as
these objects are accomplished the war
ought to cease.
Whereas, The Senate of the United
States, on the 25ta day of July, 1861,