Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-04-04

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WHEREAS, The Senate Of the United
States, on the Goth of July, 1881, adopted :
resolution in the words following, viz: (same
a. above); and
WHEREAS, These resolutions, though not
joint or concurrent in form, are substantially
identical, and AZ such % may be regarded a
having expressed the sense Of Congress upon
the subject to which they relate and
WHEREIN. BY my proclamation Of the
18th OF June last the instruction in the State
Of Tennessee was declared to have been sup.
pressed, the authority of the United States
therein 10 be undisputed, and such officers q
had been deputed to the unrestricted exercise
Of their ofhcial functions; and
WHEREAS, There now exists no organized
armed resistance Of misguided citizens or
othdrs to the authority Of the United States
Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee. Ala.
bama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi,
Texas, and Florida, and the laws can be sus
tanned and enforced therein by proper civil
authority, State or Federal, and the people
Of the said States are well and Loyalty dis
posed, and have conformed or will conform
in their legislation TO the condition of affairs
growing out of the amendment to the Con
stitution of the United States prohibiting
slavery within the limits and jurisdiction OF
the United States; and
WHEREAS, In consideration of these be-
fore cited premises, it is the manifest deter
mination of the American people that no
State, of its own will, has the right to 90
out of, or separate itself, or he separated
from, the American Union, and that there.
fore each State ought to remain and consti-
tutc an integral part Of the United States
and
WHEREAS, The people Of the several be-
fore mentioned States have, in the manner
aforesaid, given satisfactory evidence that
lant restoration of the national unity; and
WHEREAS, 1t is believed to be the funda
mental principle OF the Government that the
people who have revolted, and have been
overcome and subJued, must 80 he dealt
with as to induce them voluntarily to be
come friends, or else they must be held by
absolute military power, or else 80 devasta-
ted u to forever prevent them from doing
harm as enemies, which last named policy
is abhorrent to humanity and fteglom; and
WHEREAS, The Constitution of the Uni.
ted States provides for the constitutional
communities only as States, and not - Ter
ritories, dependencies, or protectoratse 3and
WHEREAS, Their consent must necessari.
~, and by the Constitution of the United
States, be placed on like footing as 10
rights, immunities, dignity, and power with
the several powers with which they are gov
erned, and which political policy is the
principle Of right and justice, we'll calcula-
t.l IN ind, ha 81 i,
| to become more and more constant in their
| renewed allegiance and
WHEREAS, Standing armies, military oc-
cupation, military law, military tribunals
and the suspension of the writ of habeas cor
pus are, in times of peace, dangerous to pub.
lie liberty, and incompatible with the lndi-
vidual rights of persons, and contrary to the
genius of our free Institutions and exhaus-
| tive of the national resources, and ought not
therefore to he sanctioned or allowed, ex-
| cept in cases Of actual necessity tor repeling
an invasion, or for the suppression of trea-
| son and
WHEREAS, The Government of the Uni.
ted States, from the beginning Of the insur
rection to its suppression, has been carried
on in conformity with the principles herein
set forth and enumerated; Therefore,
| l ANDREW JOHNSON, President OF
the United States, do hereby PROCLAIM AND
DECLARE that the instruction which has
heretofore existed in the States Of Georgia
South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia
Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas
Mississippi, and Florida IS AT AN END, AMI
HENCEFoRTH TO BE so REGARDED.
In testimony whereof, have hereunto sci
| my hand and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed
Done at the City of Washington, this sec
ond day of April, in the year of our Lord
1866, and of the independence of the United
States of America the nineticth.
(Signed) ANDREW JOHNSON.
| By the President
w. II. SEWARD, Secretary of State.