The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1871-05-13
Proel.,nation by the President.

{ Following p the proclanatiosP issued by
PRECEDENT Grant on M.s Sd. the result Of the
e1traordinaFy authority conferred upon him
at tbs last session Of Congress:
\ BY ths PresieenA Of Thea United States %
America-A proclamation: The act Of Con-
gress, entitled an act to enforce the proyis-
Of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Consti-
tuition Of the United States, and for other pur
poses, approved April 10th. A. d. 1871, being
IA law Of extraordinary public Importance. 1
| consider it my duty to issue this, my procls-
nation, calling the attention Of the people of
the United States thereto, enjoining ON allgood
citizens. and especially upon public officers,
TO be Jealous in the enforcement thereof, and
warning all persons TO abstain from commit
! ting any of the acts thereby prohibited. The
law Of Congress applies to all parts Of the
| United States, and will be enforced every
| where 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 combina-
tons of lawless and disaffected persons in GER
tain localities lately the theater OF insurreetion
and military conflict do particularly exhori
the people of those parts 10 suppress all such
combinations by their own voluntary efforts,
| through the agency Of local laws, and to MAIN
| tain the rights of all citizens Of the United
| States, and to secure to all such citizens their
| equal protection of the law, o.. o., r.r.. ....
Fully sensible of the responsibility imposed
| upon the Executive by the act Of Congress to
| which public attention is now called, and re-
luctant to call into exercise any Of the e1traoI-
| binary powers thereby conferred upon me-
| except in Gases of imperative necessity, do.
nevertheless, deem il my duty TO make known
| that will not hesitate to exhaust the power
| thus vested in the Executive Whenever and
| wherever IT shall become necessary to do so.
| for the purpose Of securing 10 citizens of the
United States the peaceful enjoyment of the
| rights guaranteed To them by the Constitution
and laws IL 10 my earnest wish that peace
and cheerful obedience to the law may prevail
throughout the land, and that all traces of our
late unhappy civil struggle may be speedily
removed. These ends can be easily reached
by acquiescence in the results Of the conflict,
now written in our Constitution, aud by the
due and proper enforcement Of equal Just
and impartial laws in every part of our
I country.
The failure Of local communities to furnish
means for the attainment of results so earn
estly desired, imposes upon the National Gov.
eminent the duty OF putting forth all its ener-
gles for the protection of its citizens Of every
race and color, and for the restoration of peace
and order throughout the entire country.
In testimony whereof have hereunto sci
my hand and caused the seal Of the United
| States 10 be affixed. Done at the city OF
Washington this 81 day of May, in the year OF
orr Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seVenty-one, and of the Independence d the
United States the ninety-iith.
U. S, GRAs1.
BY the President:
HAMILTON FIsH, Secretary of State.