The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-04-12
PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT.
WASHINGTON, April 2.
By the President of the United States,
Proclamation

w ASHINGTON, April =.
By the President of the United States, a
Proclamation
WHEREAS, By proclamations on the 10th
and 18th of April, one thousand eight hun
dred and sixty one, the President Of the
United States III virtue of the power vested
iii him by the Constitution and the laws, de
clared that the laws of the United States
were opposed and the execution thereof Oh
structed i'll the States of South Carolina,
Georgia Alabama, Florida, Mississippi
Louisiana and Texas, by combinations too
powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary
course of judicial proceedings, or by the
power vested in the marshals, 10y law; and
WHEREAS, By another proclamation, made
on the 10th day of August, in the same
year, in pursuance Of an act of Congress
approved July Is, 1861, the inhabitants of
Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, North
Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana,
Texas, Arkansas Mississippi and Florida
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 before named, as
might maintain loyal adhesion to the
Union and the Constitution, or might be
from time to time occupied and controlled
by the forces of the United States engaged
in the dispersion of insurgents, were de-
clared to be in state of instruction against
the United States; and
) WHEREAS, BY another proclamation on
the LIST day of July, 1862, issued in pursu-
ance of an Act Of Congress- approved June
9TH, In the same year, the Instruction was
declared to de still existing in the States
aforesaid, with the exception of certain spec
flied counties in the State Of Virginia; aud
WHEREAS, BY another proclamation made
on the I'd day of April, 1863, in pursuance
of the Act Of Congress of July 18th, 1861,
the exceptions named in the proclamation of
August 10th 1861; were revoked ara the
inhabitants of tie States of Georgia, South
Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Ala
bama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Missis-
sippi Florida and Virginia, except the forty
eight counties of Virginia designated as
West Virginia, and the, parts of New
Orleans, Key West, Port Royal and Beaufort
South Carolina were reported to be in al
State of Instruction against the United
States; and
WHEREAS. The House of Representatives
on the 22d of July, 1861 adopted resolu-
in the words following. viz
ResoIUed, By the House of Representatives
of the Congress of the United States, that
the present deplorabIe civil war has been
forced upon the country by the disunionists
of the Southern States now in revolt against
the Constitutional Government of the Uni
ted States, and in arms around the Capital
that in this national emergency, Congress
banishing all feelings of mere passion or re-
sentiment, will recollect only its duty to the
whole country'that this war is not waged on
our part i'll anysspirit Of oppression, nor pur.
pose of conquest or subjugation nor for the
purpose Of overthrowing or interfering with
the rights of established institutions Of those
States, but to maintain aud defend the SUI
premacy of the Constitution and pre-
serve the Union with all the equality and
dignity of the several States unimpaired, and
that as soon as these objects are accomplish
ed, the war ought to cease and ~
WHEREAS, These resolutions tho not joint
or concurrent in form, are substantially iden-
teal, and as such may be regarded as having
expressed the sense of Congress upon the
subject to which they relate: and
WHEREAS, Bymy 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 to be undisputed, and such officers
as had been deputed to the unrestricted ex-
ercise of their official functions and
WHEREAS, There now exists no organized
armed resistance of misguided citizens or
others to the authority of the United States
in the State of Georgia, Virginia, North Car
DINA, South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama
Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas and
Florida and the laws can be sustained and
enforced therein by proper civil authority,
State or Federal, and the people of the said
States are well and Loyalty disposed and have
conformed or will conform in their legisa-
ton 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 consideration of these before
cited premises, it is the manifest determine
ton of the American people that no State of
its own will has right to go out Of, or sep
arate itself, or be separated from the Amer
lean Union, and that therefore each State
ought to remain and constitute an integral
part of the United States and
WHEREAS, People of the several before
mentioned States have. in the manner afore.
said, given satisfactory evidence that they
acquiesce in this sovereign and important
revolution of the national unity and
! WHEREAS, 1t is believed to be the fuuda
mental PRINCIPAL of the Government that the
| people who have revolted, and have been