The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-04
FIFTH EDITION
THE LATEST NEWS
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WARRINGTON, May 4-By the President Of
the United States of America, proelama-
The act of Congress entitled 'Au act to en-
force the provisions of the fourteenth amend
ment to the Constitution of the United States,
and for ether purposes, y approved April 20,
1871, being a law of Extraordinary public inn
potance, j consider 1t my duty to Issue this my
procIamatiop calling the attention of the people
of the United States thereto enjoiniug upon all
good citizens, and especially upon all public
officers, to be jealous, 10 the enforcement
thereof, and warning all persons to abstain from
committing any of the acts thereby prohibited,
This law of Congress applies to all parts of the
United States, and Will be enforced everywhere
10 the extent of the powers vested in the Exe-
But inasmuch as the necessity therefor is well
known to have been caused chiefly by persistent
violations of the rights of citizens of the United
States, by combinations of 1lawless and dis
affected persons In certain localities lately the
theatre of neurrection and military conflict, l
d. particularly eXhort the people Of those parts
of the country to suppress all such combine
tions by their own voluntary efforts through the
agency of local laws, and to maintain the rights
of all citizens of the United States, and to Sc
cure all such citizens the equal protection of the
laws. tn tff.. IL liza 4sit ,.,4..ra+tr al
Fully sensible of the responsibility imposed
upon the Executive by the act of Congress to
which public attention is nowcalsd, and reluctant
to call into exercise any of the extraordinary
| powers thereby conferred upon me, except in
cases of imperative necessity, I do, nevertbe-
less, deem it my duty to make known that
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vested in the Executive whenever aud wherever
ID shall become necessary to do so for
the purpose . of securing to all
| citizens of the United States the
peaceful enjoyment of the rights guaranteed to
| them by the Constitution and laws. 1t is my
earnest wish that peace and cheerful obediencs
to law may, prevail throughout the land, aud
that all traces of our late unhappy civil strife
may be speedily removed. These ends can be
easily reached by acquiescencs in the results of
| the conflict now written rr'5 In
| our Constitution and by the due aud
proper enforcement of equal, just, and impair
tial laws in every part of our country. The
failure of local governments to furnish such
means for the attainment of results so earnestly
desired impose upon the National Government
the duty of putting forth all its energies for the
protection of all its citizens of every race and
| color, ahu lot the restoration Oh peace ana oruer
throughout the entire country. ...''I,
In testimony whereof have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United States
to be affixed. osuro5 sdI 1irui.,rsl OF 7lag
Done at the City of Washington, this third day
OF May, in the year Of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and seyenty-cne, and of the In
dependence of the United States the ninety
fifth. M ..Hl $50 eta". u. s. GRANT.
By the President, l. 1''" -as.t. nFa 3!
HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State.