The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-05-06
PROCLAMATION By THE PRECEDENT.

On Wednesday last the President
issued the following proclamation,
preliminary to the subversion of civil
law in all the once sovereign States of
the late Republic OF the United States:
The Act of Congress entitled IAN
Act to enforce the provisions of the
Fourteenth Amendment to the Con-
stitution of the United States and for
other purposes" approved April 20,
A. d. ISL, being a law of extraordin-
ary importance, l consider it my duty
to issue this, my proclamation, calling
the attention of the people of the init
ed States thereto; enjoininE all good
citizens and relying upon h
public officers to he Jealous in the en-
forcement thereof, and warning all
persons to abstain from committing
any of the acts thereby prohibited.
The 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;
but inasmuch as the necessity thereof
is we'll known to have been caused
chiefly by the persistent violations of
the rights of citizens of the United
States bv combinations of lawless and
di>aifected persons in certain locall-
ties, lately the theatre of in%surrectiOii
and military conflict, l do particularly
exhort the people of those parts of the
country TO suppress all such combina-
ton by their own voluntary efforts,
through the agency of local laws,
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 re-
sponsibility imposed upon the Execu'
tive by the Act of Congress, to which
public attention is now called, n re
luctant to call into exercise any OF the
extraordinary powers conferred upon
me except in cases of imperative neces
sitv, l do nevertheless deem II my
duty to make known that l will not
hesitate to exhaust the " thus
vested in the Executive whenever ano
wherever it shall become necessary tC
do so for the purpose OF securing &c
/ citizens of the United States the peace
full enjoyment of their rights guaran
teed to them by the Constitution and
laws. 1t is my earnest wish that ful
and cheerful obedience to the law:
NAV prevail throughout the land. and
tina all traces of our late unhappy
civil strife may be speedily removed.
These ends can be easily reached by
a~cquiescence in the results of the con
t1ict now written in our Constitution
and by the due and proper enforce,
ment 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 re
suits so earnestly desired, imposes
upon the National Government the
duty OF putting forth all its ener
gies for the protection of its citizen,
of every race and color, and for the
restoration ofpeace and order through
out the entire country.
In testimony whereof l have here
unto set my hand and caused the sea
of the United States to be affixed,
Done at the City of Washington, thi
the third day of May, in the year o
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-one, and of the indie
pendence of the United States thu
ninetv-tifth. L.. 5. GRANT.
BY the President: HAMILTON FISH
Secretary of State.