The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-09-04
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

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Proclamation Of the President En-
forcing Respect for the United
States Courts Decisions in the Mill
tary Districts.
WASHINGTON, September 3.-Tho fol-
lowing proclamation has been issued by
the President:
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, by the Constitution Of the
United States the executive power is
vested in a President of the United States
Of America, who is bound by solemn oath
faithfully to execute the Office of Presi-
dent to the best of his ability to preserve,
protect, and defend the Constitution of the
United States, and is by the same instru-
ment made Commander-in-C Chief Of the
army and navy Of the United States, and
is required to take care that the laws be
faithfully executed; and whereas by the
same Constitution it is provided that the
said Constitution and the laws Of the Uni
ted States which shall be made in pursu-
ance thereof shall be the supreme law of
the land, and the Judges in every State
shall be bound thereby and whereas in
the same Constitution the judicial power
of the United States is vested in one Su-
preme Court and in such inferior courts
as Congress may from time to time ordain
and establish, and the aforesaid judicial
power is declared to extend to all cases
in law and equity arising under the Con-
stitution, the laws Of the United States,
and the treaties which snail be made under
their authority and whereas all officers,
civil and military, are bound by oath that
they will support and defend the Contitu-
ton Of the United States against all ene
mics, foreign and domestic, and will bear
true faith and allegiance to the same; and
whereas all officers of the army and navy
Of the United States, in accepting their
commissions under the laws Of Congress
and the rules and articles of war, incur an
obligation to obey and follow such direc-
tons as they shall from time to time
receive from the President, or the Gene
raj, or other superior officers set over
them, according to the rules and dlscl-
plne of war; and whereas it is provided
by law that whenever, by reason of unlaw-
full distractions, combinations, or assem-
blages of persons, or rebellion against the
authority of the Government of the United
States, it shall become impracticable
in the judgment Of the President Of the
United States to enforce, by the ordinary
course Of judicial proceedings, the laws of
the United States within any State or ter
ritory, the Executive, in that case, is au-
thorized and required to secure their faith
full execution by the employment of the
land and naval forces; and whereas i'm
pediments and distractions, serious in their
character, have recently been interposed
in the States of North and South Caro-
lima, hindering and proven ting for time
a proper enforcement there Of the laws of
the United States and of the judgments
and DEGREES of lawful court thereof, in
disregard Of the command of the President
Of the United States and whereas reason
able and well-founded apprchensons
exist that such ill-adyiscd and I'M
lawful proceedings may be again attempt
ed there or elsewhere
Now, therefore, l, Andrew Johnson,
President of the United States, do hereby
warn all persons against obstructing or
hindering in any way whatever the faithful
execution of the Constitution and the
laws; and do soemnly enjoin and com
mand all officers of the Government, civil
and military, to render due submission
and obedience to said laws, and to
the judgments and DEGREES Of the
courts of the United States, and to
give all the aid in their power necessary
to the prompt enforcement and execution
of such laws, DEGREES, judgments, and pro-
cesses; and l do hereby enjoin upon the
officers of the army and navy to assist and
sustain the courts and other civil authori-
ties of the United States in faithful ad-
ministration Of the laws thereof, and in
the judgments, DEGREES, mandates, and
processes Of the courts of the United
States, and l call upon all good and
ell-disposed citizens Of the United
States to remember that upon the said
Constitution and laws, and upon the judg-
ments, DEGREES, and processes Of the
courts made in accordance with the same,
depend the protection Of the lives, liberty,
and property and happiness Of the people ;
and I exhort them everywhere to testify
their devotion to their country, their pride
in its prosperity and greatness, and their
determination to uphold its free institu-
tons by hearty cooperation in the efforts
of the Government to sustain the autho-
rity of the law, to maintain the supremacy
of the Federal Constitution, and to pre-
serve unimpaired the integrity Of the Ma
tional Union.
In testimony whereof l have caused the
seal Of the United States to be affixed to
these presents, and sign the same with my
hand.
Done at the city of Washington the Sd
day of September in the year 1867.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
By the President.
[sEAL.l William II. Se,card,
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