The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-04-10
Restoration Of the Old Flag all over the
Land of the Free. :,
TIE WRIT or HABEAS CORPUS IN
FULL OPERA TION ONCE MORE.
TRUST OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON IN THE
GOOD FAITH OF THE SOUTH.
BegilHning of ., Ne w Hril of re.
union.
WAsHINGroN, Monday, April 2.
by the President ofthe United States.
A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas, BY proclamation on the 18th
and 18th Of Aprit, 1861, tho President Of
tho United States, in virtue of the power
vested in him by the Constitution and the
laws, declared that the laws of the United
State were opposed, and the execution
thereof obstructed in the States of South
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mis-
sissipp, Louisiana and Texas, by combina-
tious toopowerful to be opposed by the ordi.
nary course of judicial proceedings, or by
the powers vested Ill the Marshals by law;
aud.
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 inhabi-
tants of Georgia, South Carolina, Virgin
ia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama,
Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi
and Florid;.. except the Inhabitants 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 be-
fore named as might maintain q loyal adhe-
sion to the Union aud the Constitution, or
might be from timo to time occupied and
controlled by the forces of the United States
engaged in the dispersion Of insurgents,
were deslared to be in state of Instruction
against the United States; and
Whereds, BY another proclamation on the
1st day of July, 1862, issued in pursuance
of an act of Congress, approved June 7th, in
the same year, the insurrection was declar-
ed to be still existing in the states aforesaid,
with the exception of,certain specified coun-
ties in the State of Virginia; and
JPhereas BY another proclamation made
on the ID day of April, 1868, in pursuance
of the act of Congress of July 18th, 1861,
I the exceptions named in the proclamation of
inhabitants of the States of Georgia, South
Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Ala
hama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Misis-
sippi, Florida and Virginia, except the for
ty-eight counties of Virginia designated as
West Virginia, and the ports Of New Orr
leans, Key West, Port Royal and Beaufort,
in South Carolina,.were declared TO be in a
state of insurrection against the United
States; and, whereas, the House Of Repre-
sentatives, on the 22d day of July, 1851
adopted resolution in the wosde following,
viz: tjs
Resoived, By the House of Representatives Of
the Congress of the Cai;eS .Sssss, @ :.
present civil war has been forced upon tho
country by the Disunionists ofthe Southern.
States, now in revolt against the constitu-
tional Government, and in arms around the
Capitai that In this national emergency,
Congress, banishing all feelings of mare
passion or resentment, will only recollect
its duty TO the whole country that this war
is not waged on our part in any spirit of OPP
preston. not for any purpose of conquest or
subjugstion mol notforthepurposeo of overthrow
ing or interfering with the rights or estab-
lished institutions of those States, but to
maintain and defend the supremacy Of the
Constitution. and To- preserve tho Union,
with all the dignity equality aud rights OF 1
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