Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-04-06
PRocEsaLlrfoY 81. rHB PREsTDEsE
THE - lEgLARE9 EE1El
WAsHINaroH. April 2.
By he President Of fke United States, a
Pl-aeI.lnlafion


WHEREAS, By proclamation on the
18th and 19th of April, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-oue, the Presl-
dent Of the United States, by virtue of the
power invested In him by the Constitu-
ti0n and the laws, declared that the laws
IF the United States we're opposed, and
the execution thereof ObstTucted IN the
States Of South Carolina, Georgia. Ala
hama, FLORIDA, Mississippi, Louisiana and
Texas, by combinations too powerful TO
( be suppressed by the ordinary course OF
judicial proceedings, or by the powers
vested In the Marshals by law; and
WHEREAS, By another proclamation
made on the 10Th day Of August, in the
same year, In pursuance Of an act Of Con
gress approved July 13, 1861, the inhabi
tants Of Georgia, South Carolina, Virgin
/ ia. North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama.
{ Louisiana, Texas. Arkansas, Mississippi
and Florida, except the inhabitants OF
+ that part of the State of Virginia, lying
xest of the Allegheny Mountains, and to
such other parts of that State and the
other States before named. as might main
( tain a loyal adhesion to the Union and
I the Constitution, or might be from time
I to time occupied aud controlled by the
! forces Of the United States engaged IN
I the dispersion of insurgents, were declar-
. a
4 the United States aud
WHEREAS, BY another proclamation on
the lst day of July, 1852, issued In pur-
suance Of an act Of Congress, approved
( June 9TH, IN the same year, the iusuTrec-
/ tiOn was declared to be still existing IL
the States aforesaid, with the exception
I of specified counties in the State of Vir
ginia and
WHEREAS, By another proclamation
made on the ID day of April, 1853, IL
[ pursuance of the act of Congress Of July
18th, 1861, the exceptions named IN the
proclamation of August 10Th, 1861, were
I revoked. and the inhabitants of the States
/ Of Georgia, South Carolina, North Caro-
lima, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana.
Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Fiorida
aud Virginia, except the forty eight c0un-
ties Of Virginia designated as West VIr-
ginia, and the ports Of New Orleans, Key
West, Port Royal and Beaufort and
WHEREAS. By another proclamation.
on the lst day Of July, 1862. issued IN
pursuance of an act of Congress, approved
June 18th OF the same year the insurrec
tion was declared still existing IN the
States aforesaid, with the exception o.
certain specified counties In the State OF
Virginia and
WHEREAS, By another proclamation
made on the I'd day of April, 1868, In pur-
suanee OF the act Of Congress of July
18th, 1861, the exceptions named 10 the
proclamation of August 10Th, 1861, were
revoked, and the inability of the States Of
Georgia. South Carolina, North Carolina
Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas,
Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida and Fir-
ginia, except the forty eight counties OF
Virginia designated as West Virginia, anO
rho r,ov%s Of Nan O~loaps Mast
Port Royal aud Beaufort, in South Car
olina, were declared to be in a state o.
insurrectiOn against the United States !;
and
WHEREAS. The House of Representa-
tives on the 22d of j uly, 1861, adopted q
resolution In the words following, viz
ResoIUed Jy the House Of representa-
HCes Of the C0rgreSs Of The United States,
That the present depIorable civil war has
been forced upon the country by the dis
uniOnists of the Southern States, now in
rebellion against the constitutional Gov
ernment, and II arms around the capital
that in this national emergency, Congress
banishing all feeling of resentment, viii
do only its duty to the whole country
that this war is not waged on our part IN
any spirit of oppression, nor for any pur-
pose of conquest or subjugatiOn, nor for
AuEGElGE
ing with the established institutions Of
those States, but to maintain and defend
the supremacy of the Constitution, and to
preserve the Union with all its dignity
and the equality and rights of the severa
States uuimpaIred ; and as soon as these
objects are accomplished the war ought
to cease and
WHEREAS, These resolutions, though
not joint or concurrent, form one suBatau--
tally they may be regarded as having ex-
pressed the sense of Congress upon the
subject to which they relate and
WHEREAS, By my proclamation Of the
18th Of J uRe last, the insurrection in the
State of Tennessee was declared to have
been suppressed, and the authority of the
United States therein to be undisputed
and such United States officers as has
been duly commissioned to be in the
undIsputed exercise Of their official func-
tioDs and
WHEREAS, There now exists no organ
lied armed resistance of misguided citi-
zens. nor others, to the authority of the
United States in the States of Georgia
South Carolina, Virginia, North Carroll
na, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana. Ar
kansas, Mississippi and Florida, and the
laws can be enforced therein by the prop
er civil authority, State or Federal, and
the people of the said States are well and
loyalty disposed, and have cODformed, or
viii conform, in their legislation TO the
condition Of affairs growing out of the
amendment to the Constitution Of the
United States prohibiting slavery within
the limits and Jurisdiction of the United
States and
WHEREAS, In view Of the before recit- |
ed premises, 1t Is the manifest determine I
fICn of the American people that no
State of It's own will has the right or the /
power to go out of or separate itself from |
Or be separated from the American Uni /
D2, and that, therefore, each State ought |
70 remain and constitute an integral part
1f the United States and
WHEREAS, The people of the several
before mentioned States have, IN the man
Ter aforesaid. given satisfactory evidence
hat they acquieSce in this important rev.
,lution Of the National Union and
WHEREAS, 1t is believed to be the fun
lameDtal principle of the Government
hat people who have reVOlted, and who
lave been overcome and subdued, must
,e dealt with so as to induce them virtu-
lily to become friends, or else these must
,e held by absolute military power, so as
o prevent them from ever again doing
.arm as enemies, which last named poll
y as abhorrent to humanity and freedom
nd (
WHEREAS, The Constitution of the Uni
ed States provides for constitutional S
only as States and not as
'erritOries, and provides no protector
tes ; and ,
WHEREAS, Such constitutional States :