Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-05-23
LOUISIANA NEWS.
A Proclamation by the President.

WASHINGTON, May 22.-The following
proclamation excited surprise in all circles.
Senator West was equally with others sur
prised: 4ralar4 -f5a.. .-f s.r.trt b
WHEREAS, Under the pretense that
William 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 laws and
constituted authorities of said State and
Whereas, 1t has been duly certified by
the proper authorities and judicially de-
termined 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 q asJucaf r sl
Whereas, Congress at it's late session,
upon due consideration OF the subject,
tacitly recognized the said Executive and
his associates then as now in Office by re-
fusing to take any action with respect
thereto; and
Whereas, 1t is provided in the COnsti-
tuition of the. United States, that the
United States shall protect every State in
this Union on the application of the Legis-
lature or of the Executive, when the Legis-
lature cannot be convened, against domes-
tic 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, ap-
plication of the Legislature of such State
or of the Executive, when the Legislature
cannot be conven ed, to call forth the mill
tia of any other State or States or to em-
ploy such part of the land and naval forces
as shall be judged necessary for the pur-
pose of suppreSsing such insurrectiOn or
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 emer-
gency, and the Executive of said State,
under Section of Article w of the Con-
stitution of the United States, and the laws
passed in pursuance thereof, has therefore
made application to me for such part OF
military force of the United States as may
be necessary and adequate to protect said
State and the citizens thereof against do
mestic violence, and to enforce the due
execution of the laws; and, :,
Whereas, it is required that whenever IL
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 re-
spective homes within a limited time;
Now, therefore, L, Ulysses S. Grant,
| President of the United States, do hereby
make proclamation and command said
| turbulent and disorderly persons to dis
perse and retire peacefully to their respec-
tive abodes within twenty days from this
date, and hereafter to submit themselves
to the laws and constituted authorities of
said State, and invoke the aid and CO
operation of all good citizens thereof to up.
hold the law and preserve the public peace.
In witness whereof, / have hereunto, SET
my hand and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed. 1f s8 7a 7s8sit go
Done at the City of Washington, this, the
twenty-second day of May, in the year OF
our Lord, one thousand, eight hundred
and seventy-three, and of the indepen'
dence of the United States, the ninety
seventh. ~ .s.. U. S. GRANT.
By the President.
/ J. G. BANCROFT DAVIS,
! Acting Secretary of Safe.