Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-05-05
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FOREIGN NEWS BY THE CABLE.
yersaiIlists MassiRg to Attack Issy.
Proclamation frsm President Grant.
Miscellaneous and Washington News.
WASHINGTON.
MESSAGE FROM THE PREsIDENr.
A Fair warning TO EviI-Dsers.


WASHINGTON, May A steady rain Is
falling. .retr..
Robson has gone North this week. a
Corcoran's condition Is less hopeful to-
The President issued tbs following proc
lamation to-day: The act OF Congress,
entitled an "Act to enforce the provisions Of
the 14th Amendment to the Constitution
of the United States, and for other pur-
poses" approved April 20, A. d. 1871, be-
Ing law Of extraordinary public impor-
lance, L consider TINY duty to issue this, my
proclamation, calling the attention Of the
people Of the United States thereto, enjoin-
ing on good citizens, and especially on all
public officers, to be serious in the enforce
ment thereof, and warning all persons to
abstain from committing any acts thereby
prohibited. This law Of Congress applies
to all parts Of the United States, and will
be enforced everywhere to the extent Of
the power vested in the Executive |;
cessity therefor Is well i known
+. tent relations Of the rights 81 ciusens Of
the United States By combination Of law
less and disaffected persons in certain To-
calities lately the theatre Of insurrection
and military conflict, do earnestly ex-
hort the people of those parts Of the coun-
try to suppress all such combinations by
their own voluntary efforts, and through
the rights of all citizens of the United
States, and to secure to all such citizens the
equal protection. of the laws. Fully sensible
of the responsibility imposed upon the
Executive by the act Of Congress to which
public attention is now called, and reluc-
tart to call into exercise any of the extra
ordinary powers thereby conferred upon
me, except in cases Of imperative neces-
sity, I nevertheless deem it my duty to
make known that / will not hesitate to ex-
haust the powers vested in the Executive
whenever and wherever it shall become
necessary to do so for the purpose of ee-
curing to all citizens of the United States
the peaceful enjoyment Of the rights guar
ranteed them by the Constitution and
laws 1t is my earnest wish that peace
and cheerful obedience to law may prevail
throughout the land, and that all traces of
our late and unhappy civil strife may be
speedily removed. These ends can be
easily reachedby acquiescence in the re-
suits of the conflict now written in our
Constitution, and by the demand for pro-
per enforcement of'equal, just and impair
tiai laws in every part of our country.
The failure of local, communities to fur
nish such means for the attainment of re-
suits so earnestly desired, imposes upon the
National Government the duty or putting
forth all its emergencies for the protection
Gifts citizens, OF every race and color, ana
for the restoration of peace and order
throughout the entire country.,2 -rrs q. ~
In testimony whereof L have here set
my hand, and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed. Done at the city of
Washington this the Sd day of May, in the
year Of our Lord, eighteen hundred and
seventy-one, and of the Independence Of
the United States the Ninety-Fifth. =
[Signed.l US. GRANT. -