Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-08-23
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RY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA.
PROCLAMATION.


States, in virtue Of the power vested in him |
" the Constitution and the Laws, declared |
hat the laws Of the United States were OPP |
posed, and the execution thereof obstruced, |
in the States Of South Carolina, Georgia, |
Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, louisiana,
and Texas, by combinations too powerful to
be suppressed by the ordinary course Of ju-
dicial proceedings, or by the powers vested
in the Marshal5 by law; &
AND WHEREAS, BY another proclamation,
made on the sixteenth day Of August, III the
same year, IN pursuance of an act Of Con-
gress approved July thirteen, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-one, the inhabitants
of the States Of Georgia, South Carolina,
Virginia, 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 except
also the inhabitants Of 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 forces Of the United States engaged in
the dispersion of insurgents) we're declared
10 be in a state of instruction against the
United States;
AyD WHEREAS, BY another proclamation,
Of the first day of July, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-two, issued in pursuance
of an act Of Congress, approved June 9TH,
in the same year, the instruction was de-
clared to be still existing in the States afore-
said, with the exception Of certain specified
counties in the State Of Virginia.
AND WHEREAS, By another proclamation,
I a., II 4 af A
sand eight hundred and sixty three in pur-
suance Of the act of Congress Of July thir-
teen. one thousand eight hundred and sixty
one, the exceptions named in the procama-
ton Of August sixteen, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-one, were revoked,
and the inhabitants of the States of Georgia,
South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee,
Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mis-
sissippi, Florida and Virginia, Except the
forty-eight counties of Virginia designated
as West Virginia, and the ports Of New Or
leans, Key West, Port Royal, and Beaufort,
in North Carolina) were declared to be still
m a state Of instruction against the United
States;
ANDwHEREAs, Byanother proclamation Of
the fifteenth day of September, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-three, made in pur-
suanCe of the act of Congress approved
March third, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-three, the rebellion was declared
to be still existing, and the privilege Of the
writ of hdbeas corpus was in certain specified
cases suspended throughout the United
States-said suspension to continue through
out the duration of the rebellion, or until
said proclamation should, by a subsequent
one, to be issued by the President of the
United States. be modified or revoked;
AND WHEREAS, The House of Representa-
tives. on the twenty-second day of July, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one adopt
ed a resolution in the words following, name
| ly:
"Resolped by tie House Of Representatives Of the
! Congress Of the United States, That the present
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; and that in this nation
| al emergency Congress, banishing all feeling OF
passion or resentment will recollect only It's
| duty to the whole country; that this war Is not
| wased upon our part in any spirit OF oppression
nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation,
nor purpose of OverthrOwing or interfering with
/ the rights OF established institutions OF those
States but to defend and maintain 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 objects are accomplished the war ought TO
cease"
AND WHEREAS, The Senate of the United
/ States, on the twenty-ffth day of July, one
| thousand eight hundred and sixty-one,
! adopted resolution in the words following,
| tO-wit
"ResolUed 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 Government, and in
| arms around the Capital; that IN this national
! emergency. Congress, banishing, all feeling OF
/ mere passion OF resentment, Will recollect only
! its duty to the whole country; that TINS war Is
not prosecuted upon our part IN any spirit OF op-
preston, nor for any purpose Of conquest or sub
! jugatiOn, nor purpose OF oyerthroWlng or inter
fering with the rights or established institutions
| of those States but 10 defend and maintain the
| supremacy of the Constitution and all laws made
| in pursuance thereof, and to preserve the Union
with all the dignity, equality, and rights OF the
/ several States unimpared; that as soon as these
objects are accomplished the war ought to cease.
AND WHEREAS, These resolutions though
not joint or concurrent in form, are sub
stautally identical, and as such have hith-
| erto been and yet are regarded as having
| expressed the sense of Congress upon rhe
subject to which they relate
| ANDwHEREAs, The President of the United
States by proclamation of the thirteenth of
! June, 1868, declared that the instruction in
| the State of Tennessee had been suppressed,
and that the authority Of the United States
| therein was undisputed, and that such United
! States officers as had been duly commission
| ed were in the undisturbed exercise of their
| official functions;
! AND WHEREAS, The President of the United
/ States, by farther proclamation issued on the
second day of April, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-six, did promulgate and
| declare, that there no longer existed any
armed resistance of misguided citizens, 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 enforced 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 well and loyalty
disposed, and have conformed or will con-
form in their legislation to the condition of
affairs growing out Of the amendment to the
Constitution of The United States, prohibit
ing slavery within the limits and jcrisdic-
ton of the United States;
And did further declare in the same proc
lamation that it is the manifest determine
ton Of the American people that no State,
of its own will, has right or power to go
out Of or separate itself from, or be separat-
cd from the American Union; and that,
therefore, each State ought to remain and
constitute an integral part Of the United
States
And did further declare in the same last
mentioned proclamation, that the several
aforementioned States, excepting Texas,
had, in the manner aforesaid, given salts
factory evidence that they acquiesce in this
sovereign and important resolution Of ma
tional unity;
AND WHEREAS, The President of the United
States in the same proclamation did further
declare that il is believed 10 be a fundamen-
tai principle of Government that the people
who have revolted, and who have been over
come and subduod, must either be dealt with
so as to induce them voluntarily to become
friends, or else they must be held 10y abso-
lutte military power, or devastated, SO as to
prevent them from ever again doing harm
as enemies, which last-named policy is alb
horrent to humanity and freedom;
AND WHEREAS The President did in the
same proclamation further declare, that the
Constitution of the United States provides
for constituent communities only as States
and not as Territories, dependencies, prov
iuces or protectorates;
And further, that such constituent States
must necessarily be, and by the Constitution
and laws of the United States are made
equals and placed upon a like footing as 20
political rights, immunities, dignity and
power with the several States with which
they are united