The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-06-12
The Presidents Louisiana
Proclamation.

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The following is the Presidents procla
nation in reference to the Louisiana troub
les:
Washington, May 22.-The following
proclamation was issued by the President
to-day:
by the President Of tie United States
4 Proclamation:
''whereas, Under the pretense that VIM.
P. Kellogg, the present Executive of Louis
lana, and the officers associated with him in
the State administration, were not duly
elected, certain turbulent and disorderly
persons have combined together with force
and arms to resist the laws and constituted
authorities of said State; and
"Whereas, 1t has been duly certified by
the proper local authorities, and judicially
determined by the inferior and superior
courts of said State. that said officers are
entitled to hold their offices respectively,
and execute and discharge the functions
thereof and
Whereas, Congress at its late session up
on due consideration of the subject tacitiy
recognized said Executive and his associates
then as now in Office, by refusing to take
any action with respect thereto; and ..-
Whereas, 1t is provided in the Constitu-
tion of the United States that the United
States shall protect every State in this Un-
ion on application of the Legislature, or of
the Executive when the Legislature can not
be convened, against domestic violence;
and
'Wliere1s, tits provided in the laws of
the United States that in all eases of insur-
rection in any State, or of the obstruction of
the laws thereof, it shall be lawful for the
President of the United States, on applca-
ton of the Legislature of such State or of
the Executive when the Legislature can not
be convened, to call forth the militia of an
other State or States, or to employ such
part of the land and naval forces as shall be
judged necessary for the purpose of sup
pressing such instructions of causing the
laws to be duly executed; and
''Whereas, The Legislature of said State
is not now IN session, and cannot be con-
vened in time to meet the present emergen-
cy, and the Executive of said State, un-
der section 4 of article of the Constitu-
ton Of the United States and laws passed
in pursuance thereof, has therefore made ap-
plication to me for such part of the United
States forces as may be necessary and ade-
quate to protect said State and citizens
thereof against domestic violence, and to
enforce the execution of the laws; and
Whereas, 1t is required that whenever
it may be necessary, in the Judgment of
the President, to use the military force for
the purpose aforesaid, he shall forwith by
proclamation command such insurgents to
disperse, shd retire peaceably to their re-
spective homes within limited time.
''Now, therefore, 1, Ulysses S. Grant,
President of the United States, do hereby
make proclamation, and command said tur-
bulent and disorderly persons to disperse
and retire peaceably to their respective
abodes within twenty days from this date,
and hereafter to submit themselves to the
laws and constituted authorities of said
State, and I invoke the aid and cooperation
of all good citizens thereof to uphold the
law and preserve the public peace. In wit
ness whereof, have hereunto set my hand
ard caused the seal of the United States to
be affixed u. S. GRANT.
Done at the City of Washington, this
22d day of May, in the year of our Lord
1873, and of the independence ol the United
States the 9th.
by the President;
81. C. BANCROFT DAVIS.