The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-04-24
The Georgia Injunction Bill.
We copy below the concluding part Of the
petition filed by Charles O'Connor and Others
in behalf az the STATE oe Georgia.

We copy below the concluding part Of Il
petition filed by Charles O'ConnOr and Other
in behalf Of the State Of Georgia:
And, Oh information and belief. this con
plainant further shows that on theIfth ia
OF March, one thousand eight hundred anu ia
ty-seyen, IN pursuance Of such, biz declared III
tent, the President Of the United states ui
cause TO be issued by the said Gener5i Clysst
,. Grant, from the headquarters Of the army
at Washington, General Order No. Ten, pun
porting to be for the ana govern
ment Of all concerned, containing nr>t, a cop
OF the said act OF the T~hlrty-Nlnth congress
and, secondly, an announcement tnat, IN pur
suance Of the same act, the President had di
rected certain assignments, among when wa
the following The third district, conssllnt
Of the States Of Georgia, Florida and Alabama
to be commanded by Major General q. III
Thomas, headquarters, Montgomery, Ala
And that further, thereafter, and in like pun
suanee OF such intention, on the fifteenth "a,
Of the same month, March, the said Presiden
did cause to beissued from said headquarters
by the said General Grant, another General Or
der, number eighteen, whereby the following
change in the aforesaid assignment TO the sal1
district was made-that i 10 say, that BreFe
Major General John Pope was assigned to tn
command Of the third district Of the State O.
Georgia, Florida and Alabama.
And, on information and belief, the com
plainant shows that the said John rope
who is a citizen of the State OF Limos, mas
accepted the aid command. and has given
out and declared that he intends to and
will put IN force and fully execute the said
acts of Congress within the State OF Georgia
as we'll as in the other parts of the said
third district.
And this complainant appreheuds and be
Iieves that the President of the United
States, and the said Edwin NJ Stanton
Ulysses S. Grant, and John Pope, acting by
and under the orders and direction of the
President in that behalf, will put the said
acts of Congress in force within the State OF
Georgia, and therein fully execute the same
according to the intent and design OF the
said acts above in this bill alleged, and with
the effect, and producing the ruinous and
destructive consequences To this complain
ant above in this complaint stated, unless
the putting in force and execution of the
said acts of Congress be restrained, enjoined,
and prevented by this honorable court as Is
herein prayed.
And this complainant further shows and
/ insists that the said acts So respectively
passed by the T~hIrty-uluth and t~oTtleth
! Congress of the United States were and are,
and each of them, was AMI each aud every
provision of each of them, was and L. IN
tenor, object, intent, design and purpose,
Incompatible with, and repugnant to the
Constitution of the United States, and utter
" unlawful and void.
And this complainant further insists that
neither the Congress nor Government OF the
United States has any right, power or au-
thority. by or under the Constitution OF the
United States, or otherwise hoWsoever, to
declare or prescribe the qualifications OF
electors, for elective or other officers of
the said State of Georgia, or to hold or
govern elections for such officers, or to anllul,
set aside, or disturb the said existing con-
stltutiOn or government thereof.
And this complainant further shows that,
inasmuch as the President of the United
&tataC fborCls .opSaipuc of the uppnQGtitu-
tional, unlawful, unjust and oppressive. ma
ture and design of said acts, does not hin
it fit in him, as the Chief Executive officer
of the Government, to abstain from eXecu-
ting the said acts whilst they remain unim-
peached by any judicial court competent au-
thoritatively, to advise him in the premises;
and as, by consequence IN the abb
sence of such judicial action, the whole phys
zeal power of the said Executive Depart
ment will be put in force against the said
State of Georgia TO compel its submission TO
the acts aforesaid, this complainant, the said
State of Georgia, is wholly without adequate
power of resistance, or any other protection
in the premises, this complainant claims and
insists hat such protection can he and ought
to be afforded by the order and decree of
this honorable court in the premises, and by
its preliminary order and injunction herein
prayed for.
And this complainant further shows that
there is no adequate remedy in the premises
in any court of law, nor in any court of equl-
ty, save in this honorable court and that
the threatened injuries to this complainant,
herein above mentioned, will be committed
aud perfected within the next five or SIX
months, and will be perfected, consummated
and absolutely irreparable by any competent
power or authority, to the entire destruction
of the said State, its government, aud proprl-
etary rights aforesaid, unless the execution
of the said acts of Congress be, as herein
prayed for, restrained and prevented by the
preliminary order and injunction OF this
honorable court and its decree in the prem
ises.
In consideration of the premises, and mas
much as the complainant has no remedy at
law, or any other ~effectual remedy whatever,
and to the end that, by the order and injune-
ton of this honorable court, in due form issu-
ing out of. and under the seal thereof, directed
TO the said Edwin NJ Stanton, Ulysses ;.
Grant and John Pope, the said last named
three persons, and every one of them, may, un-
I'll the further order OF this court, be enjoined
and restrained from issuing any order, or doing
or permitting any act or thing whatever, with
in or concerning the State of Georgia, which is
or may be directed, or in terms or effect re-
quired of them or any of them. by, or under
the act ofthe Thirty-ninth Congress, entitled,
A act to provide for the more efficient gov
eminent ofthe rebel States,'' or by, or under,
the act of the Fortieth Congress, entitled "An
act supplemental to an act TO provide Tor the
more efficient government of the rebel States"
passed March the second, one thousand eight
hundred and siXty-seven, and to facilitate res
t%oratiOn; and that, by a like order and injunc-
ton, in like manner issuing and directed, the
said last named three persons may be enjoined
and restrained from making orissuing any or
der, or doing anything for the purpose Ofmak-
ing, or causing TO be made, in or for the State of
Georgia, or any part thereof, any such regis
tration as Is menti ned in the act of the For
tieth Congress, entitled ian act supplemental
to an act to provide for the more efficient gov
nrVNn nnNRf Of no OH SfnTa- nnlcnI nraI =na
ond, one thousand eight hundred and sixty
seven, and to facilitate restoration" or for the
purpose of administering, or causing to be adj
in the said State of Georgia any oath
or affirmation prescribed in the last mentioned
or for the purpose Ofholding or causing to
be held in the State of Georgia !
any such election or elections as in said last
act is or are prescribed or direct
or for the purpose of making or causing
to be made any return of any such election
in or for the State of Georgia as in the said
mentioned act is referred to, or for the
of ascertaining or causing to be as
the result of any such election, or
for the purpose of holding or causing TO be
leld in the said State of Georgia any such
convention as in the last mentioned act is
or referred to; and that by the
order and decree of this honorable court the
three persons last named may be per-
restrained and enjoined in all the
aspects aforesaid, and that this complain
mt NAV nave such further relief or such
'ther relief, or both, in the premises, as to
his honorable court shall seem meet, and
hall be agreeable to equity. May it please
our honors to grant to this complainant
he preliminary order and injunctions afore-
aid, or the said one of them, and also the
writ of subpoena issuing out and under the
cal of this honorable court, directed to Ed
vim NJ. Stanton, Ulysses S. Grant, and John
'ope, commanding them and every one of
hem, at a certain day, and under a certain
'enalty, to be therein inserted, to be and APP
'ear before your honors in this honorable
curt, then and there to stand to, obey, abide
perform such order and degree in the
'remises as to your honors shall seem meet,
nd shall be agreeable to equity,
And this complainant will ever pray. &c.
JEREMIAH S. BLACK,
ROBT. J. BRENT,
EDGAR COWAN,
CHARLES O'CONNOR.
of Columbia. SIS: /
Charles j. Jenkins. being duly sworn, says
he is the Governor of the State Of georgia
uly elected TO that office according to the
and laws of the said State and is
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