The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-04-07
A PROCLAMATION.

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WHEREAS, BY proclamation of the 18th
and 10Th of April, 1861, the President of the
United States, in virtue of the power vested
in him by the constitution and laws, declared
that the laws of the United States were OPP
posed and the execution thereof DISTRACTED,
in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, AL
ALBANIA, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and
Texas, by combinations too powerful to be
suppressed by the ordinary course of judi
cial proceedings or by the powers vested in
the Marshals by law;
AND WHEREAS, By another proclamation,
made on the 18th day of August, in the
same year, in pursuance of an act of Con-
gress, approved July 18th, 1861, the inhabi-
tants of the States of Georgia, South-Caro-
lima, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee,
Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mis-
sissippi 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, mi ght maintain a
loyal adhesion to the Union and the consti-
tuition, or might be from time to time, occu-
pied and controlled by the forces of the Uni
ted States, engaged in the dispersion of the
insurgents, were declared to be in a state of
instruction against the United States;
AND WHEREAS, By another proclamation
of the 1st day of July, 1869, issued in pur-
suance of an act of Congress, approved June
18th, in the same year, the instruction was
declared to be still existing in the States
aforesaid with the exception of certain spe-
CITED counties in the State OF Virginia;
AND WHEREAS. By another proclamation
made on the I'd of April, 1868, in pursuance
of the act of Congress of July 18th, 1861,
the exceptions named in the proclamation OF
August 18th, 1861, were revoked, and the
inhabitants of the States of Georgia, South
Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee Ala
bama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Missis-
sippi, Florida and Virginia, except the for
ty-eight counties of Virginia, designated as
West Virginia, and the ports of New Or
leans, Key West, Port Royal and Beaufort, in
South Carolina, were declared to be still in a
state of instruction against the United
States;
AND WHEREAS, The House of Represen-
tatives on the 22d day of July, 1861, adop-
ted resolution in the words following
namely:
Resolced by the House of Representatives 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
Constitutional Government, and in arms
around the Capital.
That, in this national emergency, Con-
gress, banishing all feelings of more 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 purpose of
overthrowing or interfering with the rights
or established institutions of these States
but to maintain and defend the supremacy
of the Constitution, and to preserve the
Union, with all its dignity, equality and
rights of the several States unimpaired-
And that as soon as those objects are accom-
pliShed, the war ought to cease.
AND WHEREAS, The Senate of the United
States, on the 25th of July, 1861, adopted
resolution in the words following, to-wit:
Resoloed, That the present deplorable civil
war has been forced upon the country by the
disunionists of the Southern States, now in
revolt against the constitutional government
and in arms around the Capital that in this
national emergency, Congress, banishing all
feeling of mere passion or resentment, will
recollect only its duty to the whole country;
that this war is not prosecuted on our part
in any spirit of oppression, nor for any pur-
pose of conquest or subjugation, or purpose
of overthrowing interfering with the
rights or established institutions of these
States, but to defend and maintain the SUI
premacy of the Constitution and all laws
made in pursuance thereof, and to preserve
the Union with all the dignity, equality and
rights of the several States unimpaired;
that, as soon as these objects ale accomplish
ed, the war ought to cease.
AND WHEREAS, These resolutions though
not joint or concurrent in form, are substan-
TALLY identical, and as such may be regarded
as having expressed the sense of Congress
upon the subject to which they relate;
AND WHEREAS. By approximation of the
18th day of June last the instruction in the
State of Tennessee was declared to have been
suppressed, the authority of the United
States therein to be undisputed, and such
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