The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-03
RESTORATION.


Indivisible--NO state has n Right 20
seeede-Equal Rights and Equal Foot.
ing for all the tatss-EncOuragement
for the sOuth-Ths Military TO Yield to
Civil Power.
PROCLAMATION by THE PRESIDENT.
WAsmNGToN, April 2.
By tie President Of The United States Of An1ericd.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, By proclamatioDs of the 10Th and 10th
of April 1861 the President Of the United States in
virtue of the power vested IN him by the Conshtu-
non and the laws, declared that the laws OF the
thereof obstructed in the states of South Carolina
Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi Louisiana
and Texas by combinations too powerful TO be sup
pressed by the ordinary course OF judicial pro-
ceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshas
y dad ivhereas, BY another proclamation made on
the 10th day OF August, in the same year, in pursu-
ance OF an act OF Congress, approved July ID, 1851
the inhabitants of the states OF Georgia, south
Carolina, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Ala
bama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, and
State of Virginia lying west of the Allegheny
mountains and such other parts of that state and
loyal adhesion to the Union and the Constitution,
or might be from time to time occupied and con.
tTolled by forces of the United states engaged IN
the suppression of the insurgents were declared TO
States;
And ,okereds By another proclamation Of the first
day of July, 1862 issued in pursuance of an act OF
Congress approved June in the same year the
insurrection declared to be still existing in the
States aforesaid with the exception of certain speci
fled counties IN the state OF Virginia;
Ind 9CheredS, BY another proclamation, made on
the second day of Apr 1868 IN pursuance of the act
Of Congress of July 10, 1861, the exceptions named
in the proclamation of August 16, 1861, were re-
voked and The inhabitants Of the States OF Georgia,
South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Ala
ToIiSa anS VIRGINIA exeent the
counties Of Virginia designated as West Virginia,
and the ports Of Of New W. orleans, y Key West Port @
TO be still IN state OF lnsur1echon against the
United States;
22d dayIot July, 1861, adopted resolution in the
words following, namely
ResOlved, BY the House of Representatives Of the
Congress of the United sates that the depora
BILE civil war has been forced upon the country Dy the
against the ConsttulOna Government, and in arms
Ground the oGPS Il hat neDg in this NSoDS
sentiments VI reco ect only Its duty TO thewhole coun.
OF oppression nor or any purpose of conquest subg
gaton nor purpose o. OF interfering @ Win
but 70 maintain and defend the supremacy of the
all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several
edet Se be aI war o @ io6n 10 @ Se
4d1d 1ChereGs, The Senate of the United States on
the 18th day OF July, 1851 adopted resolution IN the
words tOllOwinR,to WITT
Resolrtd That the present deplorable civil war has
been forced upon the country by the dsunlonss of the
Southern states now in revolt against the Gonstit1,
in this National emergency, Congress banishlng al
only its duty to the whole country that this not
on our M part in any my spirit Of nor
of0verthrowng or inter erng with the rgh Or estab;
made in parsqahee tSeroo and to preserve the Union
with all The dignity, eluaity and rights of the several
states unimpared soon as these objects accom-
plished the war ought to cease;
And UheredS hese resolutions though not Joint
or concurrent in their form, are substantially ident
cal, and as such may be regarded as having ex-
winch they relate;
1,ld tOhGreas, BY my proclamation of the 18th day
of June last the instruction in the State of Iennes
see declared to have been suppressed, the autho
rity OF the United States therein to be undsputed,
and such United States officers, as had been duly
commissioned, 10 be in the undsputed exercise of
their official functions;
Ind GCheredS, There now exists no organized armed
resistance of misguided citizens or others to the
authority of the United States in the States of
Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, North Carolina,
Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missis-
sippi Florida, and the laws can be sustained and
enforced therein by the proper civil authority State
or Federal and the people OF the said States well
and Loyalty disposed, and have conformed, or will
conform, IN their Legislation to the condition OF
affairs growing out OF the amendment to the Con.
within the limits and jurisdiction OF the United
4nd avhereas In view of the before recited pre-
misses it is the manifest determination OF the Ame-
ucan people that no state, of is own will, has the
right or the power to go out Of or separate itself
from the American Union, ana that, therefore, each
State ought to remain and constitute an integral part
Aad 1LeTeaS me people of the several before
mentioned States have IN the manner Aforesaid
given satisfactory evidence tlat tleY acQuleSCe in
tins sovereign and important revolution of national
unity;
principle of Government that people who have re-
Voled, and who have been overcome ana subdued
must either be dealt with so as ts induce them Voun
tarily to become friends, else they must be held
by absolute military power, or devastated SO as to
prevent them from ever again doing harm as enc
miles, which last-named policy is abhorent to hui
1nd tvhereas The Constitution of Ihe United
States provides Tor constitutional communities only
Sfafn n q
Yinces or protectorates;
And 1hereaS, such constituent States must neces
sarlly be, and BY the Constitution and laws OF the
Untea States are, made equals and placed upon
like footing as to political rights, imm unrtles, dig
NIFTY, and power with the several States with which
they are united; .
And sckereaS The observance of political equality
principle OF right and justice is well calculated
to encourage the people OF tine aforesaid sta es tC
be and become more and more constant and perse.
Vering in their renewed allegiance;
md tGhereas, Standing armies, military tccupa
ton, military law, military tribunals and the sus
pension OF the privilege OF the writ of habeas corpus
are III time of peace dangerous to pubic hDerY, IN
compatible with the individual rights OF the elnzen
contrary TO the genius and spirit oil our Tree IN ttu
tons, and exhaustive of the national resources anC
ought not therefore, 10 be sanctioned or allowed eX
cept in of actual necessity Tor repelng nVioI
or suppressing insurTecuon OF rebelloni
AHd tChereds The policy OF the government O
the United States from the bePinnIng of the instr
rection to It's overthrow and final suppression, IN
been in conformity with The principles hereln SO
forth and enumeratedi
the United States, do hereby proclaim and decar
that the insunection which heretofore existed 4
the States Of Georgia, South Carolina, Virgins
North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama Louisiana
Arkansas, Mississippi and Florida, Is at an end an
is heDceiorth TO Oe so regasded .- -
In testimony whereof / have hereunto set m
hand, and caused the seal OF the United states TO
affixed
of Apul, in the year OF ouI Lord one thousan
eight hundred and sixty six and of the indepen denC
of the United States of America the ninetieth