New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-12
A PROCLAMATION
BIZ THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA.
Secretary of State,

BIZ THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA.
WHEREAS, In my proclamation of the
twelfth day Of October, in the year eight
cen hundred and seventy-One, it was reGited
that certain unlawful combinations and
conspiracies existed in certain counties in
the State of South Carolina for the purpose
of dePriving certain portions and classes of
the people of that State of the rights, priyi-
leges and immunities and protection named
| in the constitution of the United States and
| secured by the act of Congress, approved
| April the twentieth, one thousand eight
| hundred and seventy-one, entitled San act
| to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth
amendment to the constitution of the United
| States" and the persons composing such
| combinations and conspiracies were COM
| manded to dispense and to retire peaCeably
| to their homes within five days from said
| date;
| And whereas by my proclamation of the
seventeenth day of October, in the year
| eighteen hundred and seventy-one, the priv
ileges of the writ of habeas corpus were
suspended in the counties named in said
! proclamation;
And whereas the county of Marion was
named in said proclamati0ns as one of the
| counties in which said unlawful combina-
| tiOns and conspiracies for the purposes
aforesaid existed, and in which the privi-
| leges of the writ of habeas corpus was sus-
| pended;
| And whereas it has been ascertained that
in said county of Marion said combinations
and conspiracies do not exist to the extent
recited in said proclamations;
| And whereas it has been aseertained that
unlawful combinations and conspiracies of
the character and to the extent and for the
| purposes described in said prOclamations
| do exist in the county of Union In said
! State;
| Now, therefore, l, Ulysses S. Grant, Presi-
| dent of the United States of America, do
| hereby revoke, as to the said county OF Ma
rion, the suspension of the privileges of the
| writ of habeas corpus directed in my said
| proclamation of the seventeenth day OF Oc-
! tober, eighteen hundred and seventy-one.
! And | do here by command all persons in
said county of Union composing the
unlawful combinations and conspiracies
| aforesaid to dispense and to retire peace
| ably to their homes within five days
| of the date hereof, and to deliver
| either to the marshal of the United States
| for the district of South Carolina, or to any
| of his deputies, OF to any military officer of
| the United States within said county, all
arms ammunition, uniforms, DISCUSSES, and
| other means aud implements used, kept,
| possessed, or controlled by them for carry
| ing out the unlawful purposes for which
the combinations and conspiraeies are Or
gained.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set
my hand. and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington the third
| day of November, in the year of our Lord
| one thousand eight hundred and seventy
one, and of the indepenee of the United
| States of America the ninety-sixth.
L. S. GRANT,
| By the President:
HAM1LToN FISH, Secretary of State.