The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1866-04-13
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PROCLAMATION
By the President Of the United
States.
THE SWORD SHEATHED.
PEACE--LAw--LIBERTY.
By the President Of The United States,

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thousand eight hundred and siXty-one,
the President 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 execution thereof OBJ
strueted, in the States Of South Caroli-
ma, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Missis-
sippi, Louisiana and Texas, by combi-
nations too powerful to be suppressed
by the ordinary course of judicial pro-
eeedings, or by the powers vested in
the marshaIs by law.
Ind 5ctcredS, By another prQclama-
tion made on the 18th day of August,
in the same year, in pursuance of an
act Of Congress approved July thir-
teenth, one thousand eight hundred and
siXty-one, the inhabitants OF Georgia,
South Carolina, Virginia, North Caro-
lima, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana,
Texas, Arkeusas, Mississippi, and Flor
ida, except the inhabitants Of that
part Of the State of Virginia lying west
of 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 lie from time TO
time occupied and controlled by the
forces of the United States engaged in
the dispersion of insurgents, were de-
clared to bein state Of insurrection
against the United States.
Ind 1cferedS, BY another proclama-
ton on the first day Of July, one thou
sand eight hundred and sixty-two, IS
sued in pursuance of anactof Congress,
approved JUae 7jh, in the same year,
the insurrection was declared to be still
existing in thestates aforesaid, with the
exception of certain specified counties
in the State of Virginia.
Aad achereas, BY another prociama-
nation, made on the second day of A.
pril, one thousand eight hundred and
and siXty-three, in pursuanceof theact
of Congress Of JuIythirteen, one thou
sand eight hundred and sixty-one, the
exceptions named in the proclamation of
August Is, one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-one, were revoked, and the
inhabitants of the States of Georgia,
South Carolina, North Carolina, Ten
nessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Ar
kansas, Mississippi, Florida, and Vir-
ginia, except the forty-eightcOunties of
Virginia designated as West Virginia,
and the ports of New Orleans, Key
West, Port Royal and Beaufort, in
South Carolina, were declared to be in
a state of insurrection against the Uni
ted States and, whereas, the House of
Representatives, on the 22d day of Ju-
ly, 1861, adopted a resolution in the
words following, viz:
Reso{red, BY the House of Represen-
tatives Of the Congress Of the United
States, that thepresent deplorable civil
war has been forced upon the country
by the Disunionists of the Southern
States, now in revolt against the Con-
Stitutional government, and in arms
around the capital that in this nation
al emergency Congress, banishing all
feelings Of mere passion or resentment,
will recollect 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 sub
iugation. nor for the purpose Of over
throwing or interfering with the rights
or established institutions Of those
States. but to maintain and defend the
supremacy of the Constitution, and to
preservethe Union withall the dignity,
equalityandrights ofthe several States
unimpaired and that as soon as these
objects are accomplished, the war ought
to cease.
And 1rhereas, The Senate Of the Uni
ted States, on the 25th dayof July, 1861,
adopted a resolution in the words fol-
lowing, viz:
Resolred, That the present deplorable
civil war has been forced upon the
country by the disunionists oftheSouth-
ern States now in revolt against the
constitutional government andin arms
around the Capital; that in this ma
tionaI emergency. Congress, banishing
all feelings of mere passion or resent
ment, will recollect only its duty to the
/ whole country; that this war is not
/ prosecuted on our part in any spirit OF
/ oppression, nor for any purpose OF con-
quest rsubiugation, nor for the purpose
of overthr0wing or interfering with
I the rights or established institutions OF
those States, bat to defend and main
tain the supremacy of the Constitution
and all laws made in pursuance there
of, and to preserve the Union with all
the dignity, equality and right of the
several States unimpaired; that as
soon as these objects are accomplished
the war ought to cease.
Agad1rIereds, These resolutions, though
not Joint or concurrent in form, are
substantially identical, and as such
may be regarded as having expressed
| the sense of Congress upon the subject
to which they relate.
And lchereds, By my proclamation ol
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