Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-03-20
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
Passed at the Third Session Of the Fort
a2 9h.z5 First Congress.
PUBLISHED By AUTHORITY.
APPENDIX
7.aufG's" ~
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA. 81. a
APPENDIX.

Whereas by an act of Congress, entitled IAN
| act to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth
| amendment of the Constitution of the United
| States, and for other purposes" approved the
| twentieth day of April, ammo Domini one thou
sand eight hundred and seventy-one. power
is given to the President of the United States,
when, in his judgment, the public safety shall
| require it, to suspend the privileges of the writ
of habeas corpus in any State or part Of State,
whenever combinations and conspiracies existin
such State or part of a State for the purpose Of
depriving any portion or class of the people OF
such States of the rights, privileges, mmunitjes,
and protection named in the Constitution of the
United States, and secured by the act of Con-
ton and conspracies do so obstruct and hinder
the execution of the laws Of any such State
and of the United States, as to deprive the peo-
pie aforesaid of the:rights, provisions, immuni-
ties, and protection aforesaid. and do oppose
and obstruct the laws of the United States and
their due execution, and impede and obstruct
the due course of justice under the same; and
whenever such combinations shall be organized
and armed, and so numerous and powerful as
to be able by violence either to overthrow or to
set at defiance the constituted authorities of said
State and of the United States within such
State and whenever by reason of said causes,
the conviction of such offenders and preserva
ton of the public peace shall become in such
State or part of of State impracticable;
And whereas such unlawful combinations and
conspiracies for the purposes aforesaid as de-
clared by the act of Congress aforesaid to be
rebellion against the Government of the United
States; . 1865,
And whereas, by said act of Congress, it is
provided that, before the President shall sus-
pend the privileges of habeas corpus, he shall
first have made proclamation commanding such
insurgents to dispense; ..-a.s.
And whereas on the third day of the present
month of November the President of the Unit
ed States did issue his proclamation, reciting
fbaroin onoono othnr thinOc that suph co.nbi-
nations and conspiracies did then exist in the
county of Union, in the State of South Caro-
lima, and commanding thereby all persons COM
posing such unlawful combinations and conspir-
homes within five days from the date thereof
and to deliver either to the marshal of the
United States for the district of South Carolina,
or to any of his deputies. or to any military OIL
Ger of the United States within said county, all
arms, amnlunitions, uniforms, DISCUSSES, and
other means and implements used. kept. pos
sessed, or controlled by them for carrying out
the unlawful purposes for which the said COM
binations and conspiracies are organized;
And whereas the insurgents engaged in such
the county aforesaid have not dispersed and re-
tired peaceably to their respective homes, and
have not delivered to the marshal Of the Unit
ed States, or to any of his deputies, or to any
military officer of the United States within said
county, all arms, ammunitions, uniforms, dis
guises, and other means and implements used,
kept, possessed, or controlled by them for car
rying out the unlawful purposes for which the
combinations and conspiracies are organized.
as commanded by said proclamation, but do
still persist in the unlawful combinations and
conspiracies aforesaid:
Now, therefore, I, ULYSSES s. GRANT; Pres
dent of the United States of America, by virtue
vested in me by the Constitution of the United
States and the act of Congress aforesaid, do
hereby declare that, in my judgment, the pub
lie safety especially requires that the privileges
of the writ Of habeas corpus be suspended, to
the end that such rebellion may be overthrown,
and do hereby suspend the privileges of the
writ of habeas corpus within the county OF
Union, in said State of South Carolina, in re-
spect to all persons arrested by the marshal of
the United States for the said district Of South
Carolina, or by any Of his deputies, or by any
officer of the United States, or by any soldier or
citizen acting under the orders of said marshal,
deputy, or such military officer within said
county, charged with any violation of the act of
Congress aforesaid during the continuance of
such rebellion.
In witness whereof have hereunto set my
hand, and caused the seal of the United States
to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this tenth
day of November, in the year of our our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy one,
rSea, land of the Independence OF the United
l'e"" States of America the ninety sixth.
U, S. GRANT.
By the President.
HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State.