Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-06-05
The Louisiana Observation-Disclosures
by the President.

President Grant has issued the following
proclamation:
By the President of the United States-A
proclamation:
WHEREAS, Under pretense that VIM. P. Kel-
logg, present Executive of Louisiana, and the
officers associated will him in the State admin
istration, were net duly elected, certain turbu-
lent and disorderly persons have combined
together with force and arms to resist the
laws and constituted authorities of said State /;
and,
WHEREAS, It has been duly certified by the
proper local authorities, and judicially deter
mined by the inferior and superior courts of
said State, that the same officers are entitled
to hold their offices respectively, and execute
and discharge the functions thereof; and,
WHEREAS, Congress, at it's late session, upon
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 Constitution
of the United States that the United States
shall protect every State in the Union, on ap-
p~lication of the Legislature, or of the Execu-
tive 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 instruction
in any State, Or of obstruction to the laws
thereof, it shall be lawful for the President of
the United States, on application of the Leg
lslature OF such State, or the Executive when
the Legislature cannot be convened, to call
for the military of any other State or States,
forces as shall be judged necessary for
the purpose of suppressing such instruction
or 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 emergencies, and the
Executive of said State, under section 4, of
article 4, 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 ade-
quately to protect said citizens thereof against
domestic violence, and to enforce the e1ecu-
ton of the laws and,
WHEREAS, 1t is required that whenever it
may be necessary, in the Judgment of the
President, to use the military forces for the
purpose aforesaid, he shall forthwith by proc
lamation command such insurgents to dis
perse and retire peaceably to their respective
homes within a limited time now, therefore,
i, Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United
States, do hereby make proclamation and con-
mand said turbulent and disorderly persons to
dispense and retire peaceably to their respect
i've abodes within twenty days from this date,
and hereafter to submit themselves to the
and I invoke the aid and cooperation of all
good citizens thereof to uphold the law and
preserve the public peace.
hand and caused the seal of the United States
to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, the 22d
day of May, in the year of our Lord 1873, and
of the independence of the United States the
9th. By the President, U. S. GRANT.
j. c. BANCROFT DAVIS, Acting Secretary of
State