The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-06-12
Matters in Louisiana.
Proclamation by the President.

Proclamation by the President.
The following Proclamation was issued
by the President of the United States.
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES, A PROCLAMATION.
u Whereas, Under the pretence that
VIM. p. Kellogg, the present Executive
of Louisiana, 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 law and constituted authorities of
sbid State, and ... .. ............
Whereas, 1t has been duly certified
by the proper local authorities and
judicially determined by the Inferior
and Supreme Courts of said State that
said officers are entitled to hold their
offices respectively and execute and
discharge the functions thereof, and
Whereas, Congress ut its late ses-
sion, upon due consideration of the
subject, tacitly recognized the said
Executive and his associates then, as
now, in office, by refusing to take any
action with respect thereto; and
Whereas, 1t is provided by the Con-
stitution of the United States, that the
United States shall protect every State
in this Union on application of the
Legislature, or of the Executive when
the Legislature cannot be convened,
against domestic violence and
Whereas, 1t is provided in the laws
of the United States that in all cases of
insurrection in any State or of obstruc-
ton of the laws thereof, it shall be law
full for the President of the United
States, on application of the Leglisla-
ture of such State or of the Executive
when the Legislature cannot be con-
vened, to call forth the militia of any
other State or States, or to employ such
part of the land and naval forces as shall
be judged necessary for the purpose
of suppressing such insurrection OF
causing the laws to be duly executed
and
Whereas, The Legislature of said
State is not now in session and cannot
be convened in time to meet the present
State, under section of article of the
Constitution of the United States and
the laws passed in pursuance thereof,
has therefore made application to mefol
such part of the military force of the
United States as may be necessary and
adequate to protect said State and the
citizens thereof against domestic vic.
lence, and to enforce the execution OF
the laws ; and
Whereas, 1t is required that when
ever it may be necessary in the judg.
ment of the President to use the military
force for the purpose aforesaid, he shal
forthwith, by proclamation, command
such insurgents to disperse and retire
peaceably to their respective homes
within limited time ; now,
Therefore, I, Ulysses S. Grant, Presi
dent of the United States, do hereby
make proclamation and command sale
turbulent and disorderly persons to dis
perse and retire peaceably to their re
spective abodes within twenty days from
this date, and hereafter to submit them
selves to the laws and constituted all
thorities of said State, and invoke th,
aid and cooperation of all good citizens
thereof to uphold the law and preserv,
the public peace. In witness whereof
have hereunto set my hand and caused
the seal of the United States to be af
fixed.
Done at the city of Washington thi
22d day of May, in the year of on
Lord, 1873, and of the independence o
the United States, the 9th.
.. U. S. GRANT.
By the President
J. G. BANCROFT DAVIS, Acting Secre
tary of State.