Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1873-06-10
The Presidents Proclamation.

WASHINGTON, May 22.-The following
proclamation was issued by the President
to-day:
By the President of the United States
A proclamation WHEREAS, Under the pre-
tense that VIM. p. Kellogg, the present
Executive of Louisiana, and the officers
associated with him in the State admins
tration We're 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 last session.
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 in the Con-
Stitution Of the United States, that the
United States shall protect every State in
this Union on the application Of the Leg
islature can not be convened, against do
mestic violence, and,
WHEREAS. 1t is provided in the laws of
the United States that in all cases of in
surrectiOn in any State, or of obstruction
to the laws thereof, it shall be lawful for
the President of the United States, on the
application of the Legislature Of such
State, or Of the Executive when the Leg
islature can not be convened, 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 in
surrectiOn, or causing the laws to b. duly
executed, and,
WHEREAS, The Legislature of said
State is not now in session and can not be
convened in time to meet the present
emergency, and the Executive Of sad
State, under section of article Of the
Constitution of the United States and the
laws passed in pursuance thereof, has,
therefore, made application to me for such
part of the military force Of the United
States as may be necessary and adequate
to protect the said State and the citizens
thereof against domestic violence and to
enforce the execution of the laws; and
WHEREAS, 1t is required that whenev-
er it may be necessary in the judgment of
the President to use the military force for
the purpose aforesaid, he shall forthwith
by proclamation command such insurgents
to disperse and retire peaceably to their
respective homes within a limited time.
Now, therefore, |, Ulysses S. Grant,
President of the United States, do hereby
make proclamation and command said
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 authori-
ties Of said State. And | invoke the aid
and cooperation of all good citizens
thereof to uphold the law and preserve
public peace.
In witness wereof | have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed. Done at tie city of
Washington. this 29d day of May, in the
year of our Lord 1878, and of the indie
pendence of the United States the 9th.
By the President: U. s. GRANT.
j. G. BANCROFT DAVIS, Act See Of
State.