Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1866-04-14

and that therefore each state ought . 70.
main and constitute an integral par, of
tho United States; and
WHEREAS, The people Of the several
before mentioned sta.es have, ia the man.
ner aforesaid, given satisfactory evidence
that they cqaiesce in this sovereign and
important restoration Of tho national
unity and
WHEREAS, II il believed to DO the fun
damental principle Of the govern ment
that the people who have rsvolted, and
been overcome and subdued, must 90 be
dealt with as to induce them voluntarily
to become friends, or else they mus, be
held BY absolute military power or else
- devastated a. to forever proven. them
from doing harm Is enemies, which lac.
named policy is aLhorrent to hum snity
and freedom; and
WHEREAS, The constitution Of tho
United States provides for the con.,i.u-
aonal communities Only a. states, and
not as territories, depen dencies or protso-
torates: and
WHEREAS, Their consen, must neces-
sarily, and by the constitution of tho U,
States be obtained, and placed on like
footing as TO- rights, immuni.ies, dignity,
and power with the several powers with
which they are governed, and which poll
'iea' policy Is the principle Of RICH. and
justice, we'll calculated to induce The peo-
pie Of the said states to become more and
more constant in their renewed allegiance
and
WHEREAS, Standing armies, military
occupations, military law, military tribu-
mails, and the suspension Of the writ of
habeas corpus are, in time OF peace, dan.
gerous to public liberty, and incompa,i-
bio with the indiv idual rights Of persons,
and contrary to the genius Of our free
institutions and exhaustive of the nation
al resourcee, and ought not therefore to
be sanctioned or allowed, except in cases
Of actual necessity for the suppr ossion Of
treason and
WHEREAS, The government Of the y.
States, from the beginning of The insur-
rec,ion to its suppression has been car.
risd on in conformity with tho principles
herein SO. forth and enumerated ; there
fore,
!. ANDREW JOHNSON, President
Of the United States, do hereby PROCLAIM
and DECLARE that the insurrection which
has heretofore existed 10 the states of
Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina,
Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama. Louisiana q,
Arkansas, Mississippi and Florida i. at
a" end, and henceforth to be 50 regarded.
In testimony Whereof l have h.reun,o
set my hand and caused the sea- of the
United States to DO affixed
Done Al the City Of WASH ng.on, this
second day Of April, III the year of our
Lord. 1866, and of the Independence Of
tue Oniteo otalss Vi America the nine
tis.h.
(Siened) ANDREW JOHNSON.
BY the President:
W. II. SEWARD, Secretary Of State.
The La Crosse Democrat IN an, Brick"
Pomeroy, is q rs2roba:e fellow, and has
no faith of the coming Of milIen am,
si.her this year or next, as some sminen,
d'v'ns' have assumed will happen. If be
did, he never would have penn.d the
following:-
when i" Jacksonville, Illinois, Ann.
Dickinson refused to stop at a hotel be-
cause the landlord, a few DAYS previous.
had declined to entertain Fred Douglas.
Poor girl 1t is too bad that the lion and
the lam3 canno. lie down together, and
have a little child to lead them"
.