New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-12-21
BIZ TIE PRESIDENT OF THE. UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA.

BIZ TIE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA.
WHEREAS By an act of Congress entitled
IAN act to enforce tho provisions of the
fourteenth amendment to the constitution
of the United States, and for other pur-
p0ses," approved the twentieth day of
April. ammo Domini one thousand eight hun
dred and seventy-one, power Is given to the
| President of the United States, when, IN his
| Indictment 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 c0nspiraCiGs
| exist in such State or part OF q State for the
| purpose of depriying 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 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 obstruot 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
I shall become in such State OF part Of a
| 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, 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 combinations and cOnspira-
cies to dispense 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-
milton, 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-
! Cies are organized;
And whereas the insurgents engaged in
| such unlawful combinations and consplra-
cies within the county aforesaid have not
! dispersed and retired peaceably to their re-
speetive 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
ganized, as commanded by said proclama-
ton, but do still persist In the unlawful
combinations and cOnsiracies 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 pubic safety
especially requires that the privileges
of the writ of habeas corpus be sus
pended, to the end that such rebellion
NAV 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 marshal8 of the United
States for the said district of South Caro-
lima, or by any of his deputies, or by an
| military officer of the United States, or b.
any soldier or citizen acting under the or
deTa Of said marshal deputy Or such mill