Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-05-31
THE PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION
He Orders the People of Louisiana to Love
and Cherish their Prosecutors, aud Com
mands them to Kindly Submit to the
Injuries Heaped Upon Them.


and Cherish their Prosecutors, aud Com
mands them to Kindly Submit to the
Injuries Heaped Upon Them.
Whereas, under pretense that VIM.
p. Kellogg, the present Executive of
and the officers associated
with him in the State Administration,
were not duly elected, certain turbu
len, and disorderly persons have COM
bined together with force and arms to ,
resist the laws and constituted Sutho-
rites of said State; and
Whereas, it has been duly certified
by the proper local authorities, and
iudicially 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 at its late ses-
sion, upon a due consideration Of the
subject, tacitly recognized the said
Executive, and bis associates then as
now in Office, by refusing to take any
action with respect thereto; and
Whereas, it is provided in the con-
stitutiOn of tho 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 con-
vened, against domestic violence and
Whereas, it is provided in the laws
of the United States, that in all cases
of instruction in any State, or of OBJ
struction to the laws thereof, it shall
be lawful for the President of the
United States, on application of the
Legislature, or of the Executive when
the Legislature cannot be convened.
to call forth the militia of any State
States, or to employ such part Of the
land and naval 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 can
not be convened in time to meet the
present emergency, and the Executive
of said State, under section four of ar
ticle four of the constitution OF the
United States, the laws passed in pur-
suance thereof, has therefore made ap-
plication to me for such part Of the
military force of United States as may
be necessary and adequate to protect
the State and the citizens thereof
against domestic violence, and to en-
force the due execution Of the laws
and
Whereas, it is required that when
ever it may be necessary in the judg'
ment of the President to use the mill.
tary force for the purpose afore-
said, be shall forthwith, by proclama.
ton, 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, dc
hereby make proclamation and com
mand said turbulent and disorderly
persons to dispense and retire peacea
bly to their respective abodes, with
in twenty days from this date, and
hereafter to submit themselves to The
laws and constituted authorities Of
said State; and invoke the aid and
cooperation of all good citizeps there
of to uphold law and preserve tht
public peace.
In witness whereof l have hereun
to set my hand and caused the seal o
the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington
this 22sd day of May. in the year o
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy.three, and of the indie
pendence of the United States tn
ninety-seventh
q. S. GRANT.
, BY the President
j. G. BANCROFT DAVIS,
Acting Secretary of State.
Washington May 22.-The Pres
dents proclamation to-day excite
: much surprise in all circles. 1t
stated in Republican circles that som
, time ego Kellogg applied for Unite
States assistance, but was persuade
; to withdraw it, and the national E.
: ecutive' regarded it of no effect. 1t
probable the President, who was al
+, sent at the time, never saw the r.
) quest. as denial of a previous dis
D patch, that such application had bee
+ made, came from the Presidents lip
; The proclamation of to-day is state
! to be prompted by Senator Carpenter
pressure upon Kellogg to renew th
application, and personal represents
ton from Carpenter to the Presiden
by telegraph, of the dangerous cond
ton of affairs in Louisiana hence Il
o renewed application from Kellogg IN