New Orleans Republican., 1872-12-14
A PROCLAMATION
Secretary of State.

A PROCLAMATION
BY 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 recited
that certain unlawful combinations and
conspiracies existed in certain counties in
the State of South Carolina for the purpose
of depriviug certain portions and classes of
the people of that State of the rights, privi-
leges and immunities and protection named
in the constitution of the United States and
secured by the act of Congress, approved
April the twentieth, ono thousand eight
hundred and seventy-one, entitled can act
to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth
amendment to the constitution of the United
Statess" and the persons composing such
combinations and conspiraoies were com
manded to disperse and TO retire peaceably
to their homes within Eve days from said
date;
Aud whereas by my proclamation of the
seventeenth day of October, in the year
eighteen hundred and seveRty-one, the priv
ileges of the writ OF habeas corpus were
suspended in the counties named in said
pPOCiamatlOn;
And whereas the county of Marion was
named in said pr0clamations as one of the
counties in which said unlawful combina-
tions and conspiracies for the purposes
aforesaid existed, and in which the priyi-
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 couspiracies do not exist to the extent
reeited in said prOclamations;
And whereas it has been aseertained that
unlawful combinations and cOnspiracies of
I, II f.,
purposes described in said proclamatiOns
do exist in the county Of Union in said
State:
Now, therefore, /, 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.
Ana do hereby command all persons in
said county of Union composing the
unlawful combinations and conspiracies
aforesaid to disperse 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 and implements used kept
possessed or controlled by them for carry
ing out the unlawful purposes for which
the combinations and c0nspiraCies are Or
ganized.
In witness whereof l have hereunto set
NV 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 indepence of the United
States of America the ninety-sixth.
y. S. GRANT.
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State.
A PROCLAMATION.
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
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
poses3'' approved the twentieth day of
April, ammo Domini one thousand eight hun
dEed and seventy-0ne, 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 the writ of ha-
beas corpus in any State or part of State,
whenever combinations and cODspiracies
exist in such State OF part OF State for the
purpose of depriying any portion or class
of the people Of such State of the rights,
privileges, immunitles, 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 Of 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 Obstruct the laws of the
United States and their due execution,
and 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
State impraCtlcable;
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, it
is provided that before the President shall
suspend the privileges of the writ Of habeas
corpus he shall first have made proclama-
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 ordinations and cOnsplra-
cies to disperse and retire peaceably 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-
nition, uniforms, DISCUSSES, and other
means and implements used, kept, pos
sessed or controlled by them for them for
carrying out the unlawful purposes for
which the said combinations and conspira-
oies are organized;
And whereas the insurgents engaged in
such unlawful combinations and cOnspira-
cies within the county aforesaid have not
dispersed and retired peaceably to their re-
spective homes, and have not delivered to
the marshal of the United States, or to any
of his deputies, or to any military officer OF
the United States within said county, all
arms, ammunition, uniforms, DISCUSSES and
other means and implements used, kept,
possessed or controlled by them for carry
ing out the unlawful purposes for which
the combinations and conspiracies are or
ganize&, as commanded by said proclama-
ton, but do still persist In the unlawful
combinations and consiraoies 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
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