The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-10-25
No. i.
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
UF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.

A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS by an aot Of Congress- entitled
!" An AIT to enforce the provisions Of the
fourteenth amendment TO, the Constitution OF
the United States, and Tor other purposes"
approved the twentieth day Of April, ammo
Domoni one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-one, power Is given to the President
q the Unitsd States, when, in his judgment,
tile public safety shall require ii, to stislen'l
the privileges Of the writ of habeas corpus
Ia any State or part of q State, whenever
combinations and conspiiacies exist in such
STATE or part Of a State lor the purpose of de-
priviug any portion or class of The people Of
snoh sta Of the rights, privileges, immuni-
ties, and protection named in the Constitu-
ton Of the Nnted States, and secured by the
at oil Congress aforesaid; and whenever
such combinations and cOnspiracies do SO OBJ
struct anlshinder the execution of the laws
OF any such State, and OF the United States,
as to deprive the people aforesaid OF the
rights, privileges, immunitles, and protection
aforesaid, and do oppose and obstruet tho
laws of the United States and their tllie exc
culion, and impede and obstrIlct the due
course of justice under the same; and When.
ever snch combinations shall bo organized
and armed, and so numerous and powerful
as TO be able by violence either to overthrow
nr to set MT defiance the constituted authori-
ties of said State and Of the United States
within sueh State; and whenever by reason
of said causes, the conviction Of suuh 0flend-
ers and the preservation Of the mblic peace
shall become in such State or part of State
imprac,itah!e:
And whereas srch unlawful combinations
and oonspiraces for the purposes aIole sail
are declared by the act of Congress aforesaid
In pf I'M
Uni o States;
And whereas, by said act Of Congress, It is
provided thar, before the President Shall sus-
pend the privileges OF the writ of habeas
corpus, he shall first have made proclamation
commanding such insurgents to dislRrse:
And whereas on the third day Of the pres
ent month Of November the President Of the
United States did issue his proclamation,
retding therein, among other things, that
suoh combinations ane Gonspllaiies dill then
gXiSt in the county Of Union, in the State Gf
South Carolina, and commanding thereby all
persons composing such unlawful combina-
lions and conspiracies to dlsperse and retire
peaeeahly to their homes within five days
| from the date thereof and to deliver either to
| the marshal OF the United States for the dis
triIt of South Carolina, or to any OF his depu-
| ties, or to any military officer of the United
S.aes within said county, all arms ammuni-
tion, uniforms, diSgnises. and other means
and implements used, kept, possessed, or con-
trolled by them for carrying ont the miaw-
| ful purposes for which the said combinations
and conspiraGies are organized;
And whereas the insurgents engaged in
such unlawful combinati,'ls and conspiracies
within ther.ounty aforesaid have not dispersed
and retired peateably to their respective
homes, and have not delivered TO the marshal
of the Uunited States, or to any of his depn-
| ties, ur to any military officer of the United
Safer within said county, all arms, ammuni-
tion, uniforms, disguses, and other means
and implements used. kept. possessed orcos'--
trolled by them for carrying out the unlawful
purposes for which the combinations and con-
| spiiacies are organized, as commanded by
said proclamation, but do still pei sist In the
unlawful combinations and conspiracies afore-
said;
Now, therefore, ], Ulysses s. Grant, Presi-
dent ofthc United Estates Of America, by viz
tue Of the authority vested In me by the Con-
siituion OF the Unitel States, and the act oi
Congress aforesaid, do hereby declare that,
in my Judgment, the public safety especially
! requires that the privileges Of the writ Of ha-
beas corpus be suspended, 10 the end that such
rebellion may be 0yerthr0Wn, and do hereby
suspend the privileges ofthe wrist Of habers
corpus within the county of Union, In the
said State ofSouth Carolina, in respect TO all
persons arrested by the marshal Of the United
States for the said district Of South Carolina
or by any of his depbties or by any military
officer of the United States, or by rny soldier
or citized acting under the orders of said mar
shal, deputy, or such military officer wlhing
said county, charged wi,hanv violation OF the
act of Congress aforesaid during the continu'
ance of sl,3h rebellion.
In witness whereof have hereunto set my
hand, and caused the seal Of the United States
Ia be affixed
Done at the City of Washington this tenth
day ofNoyember, in the year Of our
Lord one thousand eight huddre'l
[sEAL.l rnd seyenty.one, and of the indie
pendcnce of the United States OF
America the ninety-sixth.
U. S. GRANT.
BY the President:
HAMILTON FISH,
Ca.ratopv ~ Gtoic y