New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-11
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HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State.
\ PROCLAMATION.

HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State.
A PROCLAMATION.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED sTATEa
OF AMERICA.
WHEREAS, By an act of Congress entitled
"An act to enforce the provisions of the
fourteenth amendment to the constitution
of the United States, and for other pur-
poses,' approved the twentieth day of
April, ammo Domini che thousand eight hun
bred and seventy-One, power is given to the
President OF the United States, when, IN his
Judgment, the public safely shall require it,
OF suspend the privileges of the writ of ha.
beds corpus in any State or part of a State,
whenever combinations and cOnspiracies
exist in such State or part of 81 tie fer the
purpose of depriving any portion or 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 cOnspiraCies do SO ObstruCt and hinder
the execution of the laws ii any such State,
and OF the United States, as to deprive the
people aforesaid of the rights, privileges,
immunities and protection aforesaid, and
do oppose and 0bstruct the laws of the
United States and their due execution
and impede and obstruct the due course
of justice under the same and whom
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
sshall become in such State or part of
State impracticable;
And whereas such unlawful combinations
and c0nspir&cies 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, it
is provided that before the President shall
suspend the privileges Of the writ of ha5cas
corpus he shall first have made procama-
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
conspiraces 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 peaceablyt 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, disguises and other
means and implements used, kept, pos
sessed OF controlled by them for them for
carrying out the unlawful purposes for
which the said ordinations and conapira"
cies are organized.
And whereas the insurgents engaged il
such unlawful combinations and conspiraS
cies within the county Aforesaid have not
dispersed and retired peaceably TO their re-
spectiSe dOiucsy and have not delivered TO
the marshal OF the nited States or to any
of Gis deputies, OK co any military officer Of
the United States within said county, all
armEo amlnunition. uniforms, di-guises and
0thep meano and implements used, kept,
possessed or controlled by them for carry
ing OUT the unlawful purposes for which
the combinations and cOnspracies arc or
ganized, as commanded by said proclama-
ton, but do still persist in the unlawful
combinations and consiracies aforesaid:
Now, therefore, l, 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
especially requires that the privileges
OF the WIFE Of habeas corpus be sus-o
pended, Co 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, ID respect t. all persons
arrested bv the maCshals Of tie INT i
States for the said district Of South ~ - -
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