Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-05-11
The subscriptions to the new loan on
the 1st were $613,000.
The following proclamation was issued
nv the President on the 4th:

The act of Congress entitled "An act to enforce
the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment to
the Constitution of the United States, and for
other purposes approved April 90 A. D. 1871. be-
ing law of extraordinary public Importance, 1
consider it my duty to issue this my proclamation;
calling the attention of the people of the United
States thereto, enjoining upon all good citizens,
and especially upon public officers, to be Jealous
in the enforcement thereof, and warning all per-
sons to abstain from committing any 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 invested
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 disafiected
persons in certain localities lately in state OF In
surrection and military conflict, do particularly ly
exhort the people of that part of the country to
suppress all such combinations by their own vol
nntary efforts, through the agency Of the local
the United States, and to secure to all such citi
zens the equal protection of the laws.
Fully sensible of the responsibility imposed up
on the Executive by the act of Congress, to which
public opinion is now called. and reluctant to call
into exercise any extraordinary powers thereby
necessity, do, nevertheless, deem It 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 to all cti-
zens of the United States the peaceful enjoyment
of the rights guaranteed to them by the constitu-
| ton and laws. 1t is my earnest wish that
peace and cheerful obedience to law may
| prevail throughout tue lanu- anu IIldi All IaCcc
OF our late unhappy civil strife may be speedily
removed.
cence in the results of the late conflict, now writ
ten in constitution, and by the due and proper
enforcement of equal, just, and impartial laws In
committees to furnish such means for the attain
ment of results earnestly desired imposes upon
| the National Government the duty OF putting
forth all its energies for the protection of its cti-
zens of every race and color, and for the restora
ton of peace and order throughout the entire
| country.
| In testimony whereof, have hereunto 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 one thousand eigni
hundred and seventy-one, and of the independ
ence of the United States the ninety fourth
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State.
There was a formidable strike on the
4th among the laborers employed at the
break in the Erie Canal nine miles from
Rochester. All work was suspended. ant
the contractor and Sheriff had called TO
military aid, and two companies had gon
forward from Rochester. Riotous pro
ceedings up to the evening of the 4th ha'
not been of a serious nature.
A tornado swept over Baton Rouge, La
and vicinity, on the I'd, causing great de
struction of property. Several colore
persons were injured, some fatally.
There were five inches of snow at Farm
ington, Me-, on the 9Th.
A Washington dispatch of the 9Th says
| "The Joint High Commission will NJ
5 probably sign the treaty until Tuesda
t next. Among the few things positivel
: known concerning it, is that it will pr
vide only for the adjudication of Il
!, claims of both the United States an
J, Great Britain arising from 1861 till Il
f close of the war in 1865"