Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-04-28
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

WASHINGTON, April I'd.


| BIZ the President of The United States;
PROCLAMATION.
| WHEREAS, by proclamation on the 10Th
and 10th of April, 1861, 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 obstructed in the
states of South Carolina, Georgia, Ala
bama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana
and Texas, by coin Jinations too power
full to be suppressed by the ordinary
course of judicial proceedings. by the
powers vested in the marshaPs by law;
and
F. WHEREAS, by another proclamation
made on the 10th day of August in the
same year, in pursuance of an act of
Congress, approved July 18th, 1861, the
inhabitants of Georgia, South Carolina,
Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee,
Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas,
Mississippi and Florida, except the in
habitants of that part of the State of
Virginia, lying west of the Allegheny
mountains, and to such other parts of
that state and the other states before
named, as might maintain a loyal adj
hesion to the Union and the constitu-
ton, or might be from time to time oc-
cupied and controlled 10y the forces of
the United States, engaged in the dis
position of insul gents, was declared to
be in state of insurrection against the
United States; and
WHEREAS, by another proclama-
ton on the 1st day of July. 1862, issued
in pursuance of an act of Congress,
approved June 9TH, in the same year,
the instruction was declared to be still
existing in the states aforesaid with the
exception of certain specified counties
in the state of Virginia; and 90
WHEREAS, by another proclama-
tion made on the I'd day of April, 1868,
in pursuance of the act of Congress of
July 18th, 1861, the exceptions named
in the proclamation of August 10Th,
1861, were revoked, and the inhabitants
of the States of Georgia, South Caro-
lima, North Carolina, Tennessee, Ala
bama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mis-
sissippi, Florida and Virginia, except
the forty-eight counties of Virginia as
signed as West Virginia and the ports
of New Orleans, Key West, Port Royal
and Beaufort, South Carolina were de-
clared to be in a state of Instruction
against the United States; and
WHEREAS, The House OF Representa-
tives on the 22d of July, 1851, adopted
a resolution in the words following, viz:
Resolued, By the House of Represen-
tatives of the Congress of the United
States, that the present deplorable civil
war has been forced upon the country
by the disunionists of the southern
states, now in revolt against the Con-
stitutional Government of the United
States, and in arms around the Capital,
that in this national emergency, Con-
gress banishing all feeling of 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 subjugation,
nor for the purpose of overthrowing or
interfering with the rights of establish
ed institutions of those states, but to
maintain and defend the supremacy of
the Constitution and preserve the Union
with the its equality and dignity of the
several states unimpaired, and that as
soon as these objects are accomplished,
the war ought to cease; and
WHEREAS, These resolutions, though |
not joint or concurrent in form, are sub
stantially identical, and as such may be
regarded as having expressed the sense
of Congress upon the subject to which |
they relate; and
WHEREAS, By my proclamation of the
18th of June last, the insurrection in
the State of Tennessee was declared to
have been suppressed, the authority of
he United States to be undisputed, and
Iuch officers as had been deputed to the