New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-28
III TEEB PRESIDENT OF THE EMITTED STATES
OF AMERICA.

BY TERB PRESIDENT OF THE EMITTED STATES
| OF AMERICA.
! WHEREAS, BY an act of Congress entitled
| IAN act TO enforce the provisions of the
| fourteenth amendment to the constitution
| OF the Unite 4 States, and for other pur-
! poses." approved the twentieth day of
! April, ammo Domini one thousand eight hun
| dred and seyenty-One, power is given to the
| President of the United States, when, IN his
! judgment, the public safety shall require it,
| OF suspend the privileges of che writ of ha
| beAs corpus in any State or part of State,
| whenever combinations and oouBpiraees
| exist in such State or part of State for the
| purpose OF depriving any portion OF class
| OF the people of such State of the rights,
| privileges, immunities, and protection
| named in the constitution of the United
States, and secured by the act of Congress
aforesaid; and whenever such combinations
and eOnsPiracies do SO Obstruct and hinder
the execution of the laws If any such State,
and OF the United States, as to deprive the
people aforesaid of the rights, privileges
immunties and protection aforesaid, and
do oppose and Obstruct the laws of the
United States and their due execution
oand impede and Obstruct the due course
of Justice under the Same; and when
ever such combinations shall be organized
and armed, and so numerous and powerful
as to be able by violence either to overthrow
or to set at defiance the constituted authori-
ties of said State and the United States
within such State and whenever by reason
of said causes, the conviction of such offend
ers and the preservation of the public peace
shall become in such State or part of q
State impracticable;
And whereas such unlawful combinations
and conspiracies for the purposes aforesaid
are declared by the act of Congress afore-
SAID to be rebellion against the government
of the United States;
And whereas, by SAID act of Congress, 1t
is provided that before the President shall
suspend the privileges of the writ of habeas
corpus he shall first have made prOelama-
ton commanding such insurgents to dis
perse:
And whereas on the third day of the
present month of November the Presi-
dent of the United States did issue
his proclamation, reciting therein, among
other things, that such combinations and |
conspiracies did then exist in the county of |
Union, In the State of South Carolina and |
commanding thereby all persons composing |
such unlawful combinations and conspira- |
cies to dispense and retire peaoeably to their |
homes within five days from the date there |
of, and to deliver either to the marshal of the |
United States for the district of South |
Carolina, or to any of his deputies, or |
to. any military officer of the United |
States within said county all arms ammu-
milton, uniforms, DISCUSSES, and other
means and implements used. kept, DOS
eessed or controlled by them for them for
carrying out the unlawful purposes for
which the said combinations and c0nspira-
cies are organized;
And whereas the insurgents engaged in |
such unlawful combinations and oonspira-
cies within the county aforesaid have not
and retired peaceably TO their re-
spective homes, and have not delivered to
the marshal of the United States, or to anv
Of his deputies, or TO any military officer Of
the United States within said county, all
arms, ammunition, uniforms diaguises and
other means and implements used, kent.
possessed or controlled by them for carry
ing out the unlawful purposes for which
the combinations and coaspiracies are or
ganized, as commanded by said proolama-
ton, but do still persist in the unlawful
and cOnsracies aforesaid:
Now, therefore, |, Ulysses s. Grant, Presi-
dent Of the United States of America, by
virtue of the authority vested in me by the
constitution of the United States and the
act OF Congress aforesaid, do hereby declare
that, in my Judgment the public safety
requires that the privileges
Of the writ of habeds corpus be su5
pended, to the end that such rebellion
may be overthrow, and do hereby suspend
the privileges Of the writ OF habeas corpus
within the county of Union, in said State
Of South Carolina, in respect to all persons
arrested by the marshais of the United
States for the said district of South Caro-
lima, or by any of his deputies, or by any
military officer of the United States, or BY
any soldier or citizen acting under the or
deRs Of said marshal deputy or sHeh mill