Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-08-21
PEACE.
Re-EStabIshment of Civil Author
ity by the President.
A PROCLAMATION.

WASHINGTON, August19-Th President
has issued a proclamation, in which he re-
iterates the various proclamations issued by
his predecessor concerning the existence Of
armed rebellion in opposition TO the laws,
the suspension of the habeds corpus, the con-
current resolutions of Congress respecting the
object Of the levy Of troops, the subsequent
peace proclamations, and the proclamation
Of April 2, 1866. 1t concludes as follows:
WHEREAS, The President, in said prOcla-
nation of 18th June, 1866, upon fairgrounds
therein stated, and before recited, did then
and thereby proclaim the instruction, which
heretofore existed in the several States before
named, except Texas, was at an end, and
was henceforth to be so regarded; and
WHEREAS, Subsequently to the said ID
day of April, 1866, the Instruction in the
State Of Texas has been completely and
everywhere suppressed and ended, and the
authority of the United States has been sue
cessfully and completely established in the
said State of Texas and now remains therein
unresisted and undisputed, and such of the
proper United States officers as have been
duly commissioned within the limits of the
said State are now in the undisturbed exer-
else of their official functions and
WHEREAS, The laws can now be sustained
and enforced in the said State Of Texas by
the proper civil authorities, State or Fed
eral, and the people of the other State before
named are we'll disposed, and have con-
formed, or will conform in their legislation
to the condition of affairs growing out Of
the amendment of the United States Consti-
tuition prohibiting slavery within the limits
and jurisdiction of the United States and
WHEREAS, All the reasons and conclu-
sions set forth in regard to the several States
therein officially named now apply exactly
and in all respec Is to the State of Texas as
we'll as to the other States which had been
involved in instruction.
WHEREAS, Adequate provision having
been made by military orders to enforce an
execution Of the acts Of Congress and the
civil authorities, and secure obedience TO
the Constitution and laws of the United
States within the State of Texas, if re-
sort to military force for such purposes
should at any time become necessary.
Now, therefore, |, ANDREW JOHNSON,
President Of The United States, do hereby
proclaim and declare that the instruction
which heretofore existed in the State of
Texas is at an end, and is to be henceforth
so regarded in that State, and in the other
States before named, in which said insur-
rection was proclaimed to be at an end by
the aforesaid proclamation Of the ID day Of
April, 1866.
And do further proclaim that the said
instruction is at an end, and that peace,
order and tranquility and civil authority
now exist throughout the whole of the
United States Of America.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed. Done at the
city of Washington, this eighteenth day of
August, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-six, and of the independence of the
United States of America the ninety-frst.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
BY the President
VIM II. SEWARD,
~pcratarv of State