The Placer herald., 1866-04-14
THE PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION OF
PEACE.

declaring peace:
WHEREAS, by proclamation of 18th and 10th
April. 1861, the President of the United States,
in virtue Of the power vested in him by the Con.
sttution and laws declared that the laws Of
the United States were opposed and the execution
thereof obstructed in the States OF South Caroli-
ma, Georgia. Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Lou
isiana and Texas, by combinations too powerful
to be suppressed by ordinary judicial proceedings
or by the power vested in the Marshals by law;
And whereas. by another proclamation. made
on the 10th of August Of the same year, in pur-
s9ance s 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 Flor
ida, except the inhabitants of that part OF Vir
ginia lying west Of the Allegheny Mountains, and
to such other parts of the State, and Of the other
States before named, as might maintain loyal ad.
hesion to the Union and Constitution, or might be
from time to time, occupied and controlled by the
forces of the United States engaged in the disper
sion OF the insurgents, were declared to be in a
state of insurrecton against the United Statee;
And whereas, by another proclamation on the
lst day of July, 1862, issued in pursuance of an
Act OF Congress, approved June 7th of the same
year, insurrection was declared to be still existing
in the States aforesaid, with the exception of GER
tain specified counties in the State of Virginia;
And whereas, by another proclamation OF the
I'd OF April, 1868, in pursuance of an Act of Con-
gress Of July Is, 1861, the exceptions named in
the proclamation of August l6, 1861, were re-
voked, and the Inhabitants of Georgia, South
Carolina, North Carolina, Texas, Arkansas, Mis-
sissippi, Florida and Virginia, except the 4s
counties Of Virginia designated as West Vii gnia
and the ports of New Orleans, Key West, Port
Royal and Beaufort, South Carolina, were declar
ed to be in state of insurrection against the
United States:
And whereas, the House of Representatives on
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words following, viz:
Resoired That the present deplorable civil war
has been forced upon the country by the disunion.
lists in the Southern States now in revolt against
the Constitutional Government of the United
States and in arms around the Capital; that in
this national emergency Congress, banishing all
feelings OF mere passion or resentment; will re-
collect only its duty to the whole country, that
this war is not waged on our part in any spirit of
nor for the purpose Of conquest or
SUI jugation, nor for the purpose of overthrowing
nor interfering with the rights or established in
stitutions Of those States; but to maintain and
defend the supremacy Of the Constitution and
preserve the Union with all its equality and the
dignity Of the several States unmpaired; and
that as soon as these objects accomplished the
war ought to cease.
And whereas the Senate of the United States.
on the goth of July, 1861, adopted resolution in
words the same as above;
joint or concurrent in form, are substantially
Identical and rs such may be regarded as having
expressed the sense of Congress upon the subject
10 which they relate;
And whereas, by my proclamation of 18th Of
June last, the insurrection in the State Of Tennes-
see was declared to have been suppressed, the au-
thority OF the United States therein TO he undis.
puted, and such officers as had been deputed in
the unrestricted exercise 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 Georgia,
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Ten
nessee Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi
Texas and Florida, and the laws can be sustained
and enforced therein by the civil authority OF the
State or Federal Government, and the people Of
those States are we'll and Loyalty disposed, and
have conformed or will conform 10 their legisla.
tion to the condition Of affairs growing out Of the
amended Constitution of the United States, pro-
hibiting slavery within the limits and jurisdiction
of the United States
And whereas, in consideration of these before
stated premises, it is the manifest determination
of the American people that no State Of its own
act has the right to separate ITSELF or be separated
from the American Union, and that therefore each
State ought to remain and constitute an integral
part Of the United States;
And whereas, the people of the several before
mentioned States have in a measure given salts
factory evidence that they acquiesce in the sove-
reign and important RI restoration of the Nation
al unity;
And whereas, it is believed to be fundamen-
tai principle of the Government that the people
who have revolted and have been overcome and
subdued must so be dealt with rs to induce them
voluntarily to become friends, or else they must
be held by absolute military power, or else 30
devastated as to forever prevent them doing harm
as enemies. which last named policy is abhOrrent
to humanity and freedom;
And whereas the Constitution of the United
States provides for constituting communities only
as States. and not as Territories dependencies or
prOtcct0rates;
And whereas, their consent must necessarily be
had by the Constitution of the United States as
placed on an equal footing as to the rights Of
communities and power Of selfgovernment, with
the several powers with which they are governed,
and which political policy is the principle Of right
and justice-a policy we'll calculated to induce
constant in renewed allegiance;
And whereas, standing armies, military occupa'
tion, military laws, military tribunals, aud sus-
pending the writ of haOe0s corpus, are in times
of peace dangerous to public liberty, incompati-
bic with individual rights of persons, contrary to
the genius Of our free institutions and exhaustive
of the national resources, and ought not, there
fore, to be sanctioned or allowed, except in cases
of actual necessity for repelling invasion or for
the suppression Of treason;
And whereas, the Government of the United
States from the beginning Of the insurrection to
its suppression has been carried on in conformity
with the principles heretofore enumerated.
Therefore, l, Andrew johnson, President of the
United States, do hereby proclaim and declare
that the insurrectiOn which has heretofore existed
in the States of Georgia, South Carolina, North
Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisi-
ana, Arkansas. Mississippi, Florida and Texas is
at an end, and henceiorth to be so regarded.
In testimony whereof have hereunto set my
hand caused the seal of the United States TO be
affixed.
Done at the City Of Washington, this I'd day Of
April, in The year Of our Lord, 1866, and Of the
Independence of the United States of America
the goth. ANDREW JOHNSON,
President of the United States
WM. II. SEWARD, Secretary Of the State.
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