The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-04-04
Proclamation by the PresIdent..-The
War Declared Ended
WASHINGTON, april 2.
Blu tie President of the United States


By tie President of the United States
A Proclamation:
WHEREAS, By proclamatious on the
fifteenth and nineteenth of April, one
thousand, eight hundred and siXty-one,
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 We're
opposed, and the execution thereof OBJ
struc.ed in the States ofSouth Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississip-
nj, Louisiana and Texas, by combina-
lions too powerful to be suppressed by
the ordinary course of judicial pro-
ceediBgs, or by the power vested in
the Marshals by law; and,
WHEREAS, BY another proclama-
ton made on the 10th day of August,
in the same year, in pursuance ofan act
of Congress, approved July IL, 1861, the
inhabitants of Georgia, South Carolina
Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee,
Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas,
Mississippi and Florida, with the
exception of the Inhabitants of that
part ofthe State of Virginia lying west
of the Allegheny mountains, and to
such. other parts of the other States be-
fore named, as might maintain loyal
adhesion to the Union and the Consti-
tuition, or might be from time to time
occupied and controlled by the forces of
the United States:engagedi in the disper-
sion of insurgents, were declared to
be in a state of insurrection against the
United States; and o.
WHEREAS, By another proclama-
ton on the first day of July, 1862,
issued in pursuance of the act of
Congress approved Juno 7th,-i in the
same year, the instruction was de-
clared TO be still existing in the States
aforesaid, with the exception of certain
specified counties in the State of Vir-
ginia; and = tI.EEG
WHEREAS, By another proclamation
made onythe second day of April,
1865, in pursuance of the act ofCongress
of July Is, 1861, the exception named in
the proclamation of August 10, 1851,
were revoked, and the inhabitants of
the States of Georgia, South Carolina,
North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama,
Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, MisSis-
sippi, Florida and Virginia, except the
forty-eight counties of Virginia desig-
mated as West Virginia, and the
ports of New Orleans, Key West,
Port Royal and Beaufort; and
WHEREAS, BY another proclamation,
on the lst day OF July, 1852, issued in
pursuance Of an act of Congress, mp
proved June 18th of the same year, the
insurrection was declared still existing
in the States aforesaid, with the excep-
tion of certain specified counties in the
State of Virginia; and
w HEhEASt by hllOluGE
made on the ID of April, 1863, in pursn-
ance of the act of Congress of July 18th,
1861, the exceptions named in the proc
lation of August 10th, 1861, were rsyoS-
ed, and the Inability of the States of
Georgia, South Carolina, North Caro-
lima, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana,
Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida
aud Virginia, except the forty-eight
counties of Virginia designated as West
Virginia, and ports of New Orleans,
Key West, Port Royal aud Beaufort, in
South Carolina, were declared 70 be In
state of instruction aguinst the Uni
ted States and,
sentatives on the 22d of July, 1881,
adopted n resolution in the words fol-
lowing, viz:
Resoiued 6y the House of Representa-
tues 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 rebellion against the constitu-
tional Government, and in arms around
the capital, that in this national emer-
gency, Congress, banishiDg all feelings
of resentment, will do only its duty TO
the whole countryj that this war Is not
waged on our part in any spirit of OPP
preston, nor for any purpose of con-
quest or subjugatioD, nor for the pur-
nose of oyArthrOWing or interfering
with the established institutions or
those States, but to maintain and defend
the supremacy of the Constitution, and
TO preserve the Union with all its dig
nifty, and the equality and rights of the
several States unimpaired; and as soon
as these objects are accomplished the
war ought to cease; and
WHEREAS, These resolutions, though
not joint or concurrent, form one sub
stantially, they 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, and the au-
thority of the United States therein to
be undisputed, and such United States
officers as had been duly commissioned