New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-05
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LATEST NEWS FROM ALL POINTS
PRESIDENTS LATEST PROCLAMATION
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Protecting the Rights of Citizens
The Kentucky Democratic Convention
NOMINATIONS AND PLATFORM
UNC0ASUMMATED MOVEMENT ON PARIS
SEVERAL IMPORTANT ENGAGEMENTS
InsurgeRt Position Carried by Assault
SURVEY OF A CANAL ROUTE
NOMINATIONS AND PLATFORM
UNC0aSuMMATED MOVEMENT ON PARIS
SEVERAL IMPORTANT ENGAGEMENTS
InsurgeRt Position Carried by Assault
SURVEY OF A CANAL ROUTE
WASHINGTON.
Presidents Proclamation on the Law TO
Protect the Rights of Citizens-Weathe
Syuopsis and Probabilities,


WASHINGTON, May 4.-The following
proclamation was issued to-day
The act of Congress entitled an act to en-
force the provisions of the fourteenth
amendment to the constitution of the
United States, and for other purposes, ap
proved April 90, A. D. 1871, being law of
extraordinary public Importance, consider
it my duty to issue this, my proclamation,
calling the attention of the people of the
United States thereto, enjoining upon al!
good citizens, AND especially upon all pub
lie officers, to e Jealous in the enforce
ment 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 TO the extent of the powers
vested in the executive. 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 lawless and dis
affected persons in certain localities lately
the theatre of insurrectiOn and military con-
fiict, | do particularly exhort the people of
those parts Of the country to suppress all
such combinations by their own voluntary
efforts, through the agency of the local laws,
and to maintain 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 i'm
posed upon the executive by the act of
Congress to which public attention is now
called, and reluctant to call into exercise
any of the extraordinary powers thereby
conferred upon me, except in cases of inn
perative necessity, / do nevertheless deem
it my duty to make known that / will not
hesitate to exhaust the powers thus vested
in the executive whenever and wherever
it 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 cons
stitution 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 unhappy civil strife may be
speedily removed. These ends can be
easily re aehed by acquiescence in the re-
suits of the conflict now written in our
constitution, and by the due and proper en-
forcement of equal, just and impartial laws
in every part of our country.
The failure of local communities to furnish
such means for the attainment of the re-
suits so earnestly desired imposes upon the
national government the duty of putting.
forth all its energies for the protection of
its citizens of every race and'color, and for
the restoration of peace and order through
out the entire country.
In testimony whereof, / have here set my
hand and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this third
day of May in the year of our Lord, 1871,
and of the independence of the United
States the ninety fifth.
Z. S. GRANT, President.
Weather Report-Synopsis for the past
twenty-four hours.-The barometer con-
tinues low on the Pacific coast, with cloudy
weather and high westerly winds. The
lowest pressure is now central between
southwark into Georgia. 1t is highest on
Lake Superior and in Maine. The tempera-
ture has risen somewhat in the Gulf States,
but has fallen on the Atlantic and lakes.
Northeasterly winds have prevailed from
Lake Erie to Superior, but are now turning
to the northwest. Brisk northeasterly
winds in the east aud middle Atlantic;
westerly winds in the southwest. Clear
weather is reported from Minnesota and
Louisiana. Heavy rains have generally
prevailed on the lakes and the Atlantic.
Cloudy weather. with brisk northwesterlY
winds are probable for the lakes ON Frida
Clearing weather for the lower Mississippi
and the gulf. High northeasterly winds,
followed by westerly winds and clearing
weather for the middle and Eastern States.
Secretary Robeson has gone North for
week.
Mr. Corcorans condition is less hopeful
to-day. His erysipelas has been checked,
but his right lung is somewhat congested,
and general vitality feeble.
Steady rain all day.