The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-08-21
Whereas, by another proclamation. made

OF the act OF Congress of July 18th, 1861, the
exceptions named in the proclamation of Au-
gust 10th, 1861, were revoked, and the inhab-
itants of the States of Georgia, South Caro-
lima, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama,
Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Flor
ida, and Virginia. except the forty-eight coun-
ties of Virginia designated as West Virginia,
and the ports of New Orleans, Key West,
Port Royal, and Beaufort, in North Carolina,
were declared to be still in state of insurrec-
ton against the United States; and
Whereas, by another proclamation of the
10Th of September, 1868, made in pursuance
of the act of Congress approved March Sd,
1868, the rebellion was declared to be still
existing and the privilege of the writ of ha-
beas corpus was, in certain specified cases,
suspended throughout the United States said
suspension to continue throughout the dura-
ton of the rebellion, or until said proclama-
ton should, by subsequent one, to be issued
by the President of the United States be mod
fled or revoked; and
Whereas, the House of Representatives, on
the 22d day of July 1861, adopted reseu-
ton i'll the words following namely:
Resolved 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 emer-
gency, Congress, banishing all feelings of mere
passion and resentment, will recollect onl y its
duty to the whole country that this war is
not waged upon our part in any spirit of OPP
preston, nor for any purpose of conquest or
subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or
| interfering with the rights or established in
situations of those States hut to defend and
maintain the supremacy of the Constitution,
and to preserve the Union with all the digni-
| ty, equality, and rights of the several States
unimpaired, and that as soon as these objects
are accomplished, the war ought to cease; ;"
and
| Whereas the Senate of the United States,
on the 18th day of July, 1866, adopted reso-
luton in the words following to wit
"Resolyed, That the present deplorabe
civil war has been forced upon the country
by the disunionists of the Southern States
now in revolt against the constitutional gov
ernment, 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 prosecu-
ted upon our part in any spirit of oppression
ton, nor for TIE purpose of overthrowing or
interfering with the rights or established in
stitutions of those States, but to defend and
maintain the supremacy of the Constitution
and all the laws made in pursuance thereof,
and to preserve the Union, with all the dig
nifty, equality and rights of the several States
unimpaired; that as soon as these obi ects are
accomplished the war ought to cease,
And
Whereas, as these resolutions, though not
joint or concurrent, in form are substantially
the same, and as such have hitherto been and
yet are regarded as having expressed the sense
of Congress upon the subject to which they
relate; and
Whereas the President of the United
States, by proclamation of the 18th of June,
1866, declared that the instruction in the
State of Tennessee had been suppressed, and
that the authority of the United States there
in was undisputed, and that such United
States officers as had been duly commissioned
were in the undsturbed exercise of their Of
hcial functions; and
Whereas the President of the United States,
by further proclamation issued on the I'd
day of April, 1866, did promulgate and de-
clare that there no longer existed any armed
resistance of misguided citizens or others to
Iilt authority Ol ILe Oulteu OtaIeS, IN any or
in all the States before mentioned, excepting
only the State Of Texas, and did further pro-
mulgate and declare that the laws could be
sustained and enforced in the several States
before mentioned, except Texas, by the prop
er civil authorities, State or Federal and that
the people of the said States, except Texas,
are well and Loyalty disposed, and have CON
formed or will conform in their legislation to
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 did
further declare, In the same proclamation,
that it is the manifest determination of the
American people that no State, of its own
Will, has right or power to 60 out of or sepa-
rate itself from or be separated from the
American Union, and that therefore each
State ought to remain and constitute an inte-
grail part of the United States; and did further
declare, in the same last mentioned proclama-
ton, that the several aforementioned States,
excepting Texas, had in the matter given sat
isfactory evidence that they acquiesce in this
sovereign and important resolution of the
national unity; and
Whereas the President fthe United States,
in the same proclamation, did further declare,
that it is believed to he fundamental prn-
ciple of governm ent thai people who have re-
volted, and who have been overcome and sub
dued, must either be dealt with so as TO induce
them voluntarily to become friends, OF else they
must be held by absolute military power, OF
devastated 50 as to prevent them from ever
again doing harm enemies which last
named policy is abhorrent to humanity and Of
fIeedom and
Whereas the President did in the same
proclamation, further declare that the Consti-
tuition Of the United States provides for con
stituont communities only as States. and not
as territories. dependencies, provinces OF pro-
tectorates; and further, that such constituent
States must necessarily be, and by the Con
stitution and laws uf the Unilel States are