The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-04-06
No. a.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA:
A HprOclnnsat iOm.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA:
A Proclamation.
WHEREAS, by proclamations of the ff-
tenth and nineteenth of April, eighteen
hundred and sixty-one, the President of the
United States, in virtue of the power vested
in him by the Constitution and the Laws,
declared that the laws of the United States
were opposed, and the execution thereof OBJ
structed, in the States of South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Lou
isiana, and Texas, by combinations too pow
erful to DO suppressed by the ordinary course
of judicial proceedings, or by the powers
vested in the marshals by law;
And whereas, by another proclamation,
made on the sixteenth day of August, in the
same year, in pursuance of an act of
Congress approved July thirteen, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, the
inhabitants of the States Of Georgia. South
Carolina, Virginia, North [ arolina, Tonnes
see, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas
Mississippi, and Florida, Except the inhabi-
tants of that part of the State of Virginia
lying west of the Allegheny Mountains, and
except also the inhabitants of such other
parts of that Stute, and the other States be-
fore named, as might maintain loyal adhe-
sion to the Union and the Constitution, or
might be from time to time occupied and con-
tr0lled by forces of the United States en-
gagged in the dispersion of insurgents were
declared to be in q state of Instruction
against the United States;
And whereas, by another proclamation, of
the first day of July, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-two, issued in pursuance
of an act of Congress, approved June sew
enth, in the same year. the instruction was
declared to be still existing in the States
aforesaid with the exception of certain spe-
Gifted counties in the State Of Virginia;
And whereas, by another proclamation
made on the second day of April, one thou
sand eight hundred and sixty-three, in pur-
suance Of the act of Congress of July thir-
teen, one Thousand eight hundred and sixty
one, the exceptions named in the proclama-
ton of August sixteen, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-one, were revoked and
the inhabitants of the States of Georgia,
South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee
Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mis-
sissippi, Florida, and Virginia, Except the
forty-eight counties of Virginia designated
as West Virginia, and the ports of New Or
leans, Key West, Port Royal. and Beaufort,
in North Carolina) were declared to be still
in state of instruction against the United
States
And whereas, by another proclamation of
the fifteenth day of September, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-three, made in pur
suance of the act of Congress approved
March third one thousand eight hundred
and siXty-three, the rebellion was declared
to be still existing, and the privilege of the
writ of habeas corpus was in certain speci-
fed cases suspended throughout the United
States-said suspension to continue through
out the duration of the rebellion, or until
said proclamation should, by subsequent
one to be issued by the President of the Uni
ted States, be modified or revoked;
And whereas the House of Representatives
on the twenty day of July, one thous-
and eight hundred and sixty-one, adopted a
in the words following namely
Resolved by the House of Representa-
tives of the Congress of the United States
That the present deplorable civil war has
been forced upon the country by the dis
of the southern States, now in re-
volt against the Constitutional government
md in arms around the capital that in this
rational emergency, Congress, banishing all
ceilings OF mere passion OF resentment, will
'ecollect only its duty to the whole country;
hat this war is not waged upon our part in
my spirit of oppression nor toran purpose
If conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of
'verthrowing or interfering with the rights
n established institutions of those States,
nut to defend and maintain the supremacy
# the Constitution, and to preserve the
Union with all the dignity, equality, and
lights of the several States unimpaired; and
hat as soon as these objects are accomplish. |
d the war ought to cease"
And whereas, the Senate of the United |
tates, on the twenty-ffth day of July, one |
eight hundred and sixty-one,
dopted resolution in the words following, |
D-wit:-
Resolved That the present deplorable
wi war has been forced Upon the country
Y the disunionists of the southern States
ow ia revolt against the Constitutional
Overnment, and in arms around the capital;
rat in this national emergency, Congress,
lnishing all feeling of mere passion or re-
will recollect only its duty to the
hole country; that this war is not prose-
tied upon our part in any spirit of oppres
on, nor for any purpose of conquest or sub
CATION, nor purpose of overthrowing or in
rfering with the rights or established in
itutiOns of those States, but TO defend and
aintain the supremacy of the Constitution
I'd all laws made in pursuance thereof, and
preserve the Union with all the dignity,
ualIty and rights of the several States un-
paired; that as soon as these objects are
the war ought to cease" III
And whereas these resolutions, though not
mt or concurrent in fOrm, are substantial
identical, and as such have hitherto been 7
d yet are regarded as having expressed the
use of Congress upon the subject to which ,
ey relate;
And whereas, the President of the United
ties by proclamation of the thirteenth =
June, eighteen hundred and sixty-five de-
rcd that the insurrectiOn in the State of
nnessee had been suppressed and that the =
thority of the United States therein was @
disputed, aud that such United States Off G,
s as had been duly commissioned were i'm M
undisturbed exercise of their official :
ctiOns,
md whereas, the President of the United :,
ties, by further proclamation issued on N
second day of April, one thousand eight
idred and sixty-six, did pronalgate and r.
lare, that there no longer existed any ~
led resistance of misguided citizens or e.
ers, to the authority of the United States
my, or in all the States before mentioned, -
epting only the State Of Texas, and did
Their promulgate and declare that the m
S could be sustained and enforced IN the X
aral States before mentioned, except Tex
by the proper civil authorities, State or
eral, and that the people Of the said II
ties, except Texas, by the proper civil au- II
rites, State or Federal, and that the peo- co
Of the said States, except Texas, are we'll IN
loyalty disposed, and have conforned or I'M
conform in their legislation to the con- esl
On Of affairs growing out Of the amend ~ ~
t to che Constitution Of the United =
es, prohibiting slavery within the limits
jurisdiction of the United States; =
nd did further declare in the same pro- ~
1ation that it is the manifest determine 81
of the American people that no State, Of 7
wn will, has a right or power to 60 out n;
4 separate itself from, OF be separated ~,
! the American Union; and that, there
each State ought to remain and consti- mo
an integral part Of the United States; \
I'd did further declare in the same last -
toned proclamation, that the several
States excepting Texas, had,
ie manner aforesaid. given safisfacforv Nv