The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-04-06

declare that IL is believed to be fundamen.
tai principle of government that the people
who have revolted, and who have been over
come and snbdued, must either be dealt with
so as to induce them voluntarily to become
friends, or else they must be held by absolute
military power, or devastated so as to pre-
vent them from eyer again doing harm as
enemies, which last-named policy is abhor-
rent TO humanity and to freedom;
| And whereas, the President did in the
same proclamation further declare, that the
Constitution of the United States provides
for constituent communities only as States,
and not as Territories, dependencies, PROV
| inces or protectorates;
And further, that such constituent States
must necessarily be, and by the Constitution
and laws of the United States are made
equals, and placed upon like footing as to
political rights, immunities, dignity and
power with the several States with which
they are nnitcd i
And did further declare, that the observ-
ance of political equality as principle of
right and justice is well calculated to en-
courage the people of the beforenamed
States, except Texas, to be, and to become
more and more constant and perseveriDg In
their renewed allegiance;
And whereas, the President did further de-
clare that standing armies, military Occupa-
ton, martial law, military tribunals, and the
suspension of the writ of habeas corpus are,
in time of peace, dangerous to public liberty,
incompatible with the individual rights of
the citizen, contrary to the genius and spirit
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 repellng inva-
sion or suppressing instruction or rebellion;
And the President did further in the same
proclamation'decl that the policy of the
government Of the United States from tho
beginning of the Instruction to its over
throw and final suppression, had been con-
Quoted in conformity with tho principles in
the last-named proclamation rectcd;-
And whereas, the President in the said pro-
clamation of tho thirteenth of June, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-fve upon
the grounds therein stated and hereinbefore
recited, did thec and thereby proclaim and
declare that the instruction which hereto
fore existed in the several States before
named except in Texas, was at an end, and
was henceforth to be so regarded;
And whereas, subsequently to the said
second day of April, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-six, the resurrection in
the State of Texas has been completely and
everywhere suppressed and ended, and the
authority of the United States has been sue
cessfuly and completely established in the
said State of Texas, and now remains there
in unresisted and undisputed, and such
of the proper United States officers as have
been duly commissioned within the linz
its of the said State, are now in the undis-
turbed exercise of their official functions;
And whereas, the laws can now be sus-
tanned and enforced in the said State of Tex
as, by the proper civil authority State or
Federal, and the people of the said State of
Texas, like the people of the other States
before named, are well and Loyalty disposed,
and have conformed or will conform in their
legislation to the condition of affairs grow
ing out of the amendment of the Constitu-
ton of the United States prohibiting slavery
within the limits and jurisdiction of the Uni
ted States .eE.r.3
And whereas all the reasons and conclu-
sions set forth in regard to the several States
therein specially named now apply equally
and in all respects to the State of Texas, as
well as to the other States which has been
involved in Instruction
And whereas, adequate provision has been
made by military ORDERS to enforce the ex-
ecution of the acts of Congress, aid the civil
authorities, and secure obedience to the
Constitution and laws of the United States
within the State of Texas, if resort to mil
itary force for such purpose should at any
time become necessary:
Now, therefore, l, ANDREW JOHNSON,
President of the United States, do hereby
proclaim and declare that the insurrection
which heretofore existed in the State of Tex
as is at an end and is to be henceforth so re-
garded in that State, as in the other States
before named, in which the said Instruction
was proclaimed to be at an end, by the
aforesaid proclamation of the second day of
April one thousand eight hundred and six
ty-siX. s..
And do further proclaim that the said IN
surrection is at an end, and that peace, order,
tranquility and civil authority now exist in
and throughout the whole of the United
States Of America.
In testimony whereof, have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this
twentieth day of August, in tho
[sEAL.] year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-six, and
of the Independence of the United
States of America the ninety-frst.
. ANDREW JOHNSON.
By the President
WILLIAM ii. SEWARD,
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