The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1873-05-29

The President has issued the tO..
lowing proclamation in relation to
the troubles in Louisiana, the State
authorities having called on him fol
assistance:
Washington May %, 1878
By the President of the United States
q Proclamation
WHEREAS, Under the prete nee
that VIM. P. Kellogg, present exc
cutive of Louisiana, and officers
associated with him in the State
administration were not duly elected
certain turbulent and disorderly per.
sens have combined together with
force of arms to resist the laws and
constituted authorities of the said
state; and
WHEREAS, 1t has been duly certi
fed by proper local auth, rites and
judicially determined by inferior and
supreme courts of the said state
that the said officers respectively
execute and discharge the functions
thereof; and
WHEREAS, Congress at its late
session upon due consideration OIL
the subject, tacitly 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 this Union on the ap.
plication of the Legislature or of the
executive when the Legislature can
not be convened, against domest
violence; and,
WHEREAS, 1t is provided in the
laws of the United States, that in all
cases of an insure etion in any State
or of obstruction to the laws thereof,
it shall be lawful for the President OF
the United States, on the appli
cation of the Governor, if the
Legislature cannot be convened
to call forth the military of any
other State, or to employ such part
of the land and naval forces as shall
be judged necessary for the purpose
of suppressing such instruction and
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 Execu-
tive OF said State, under section of
article 4, of. the Constitution of the
United States and the laws passed
in pursuance thereto, has therefore
made application to me for such part
of the military force of the United
States az may be necessary and ade-
quate to protect said State and the
citizens thereof against domestic
violence and to enforce the execution
OF the laws; and
WHEREAS, 1t is required that
whenever it may be necessary, in the
judgment of the President to use
military force for the purpose afore-
said, he shall forthwith, by proclama-
ton, command such insurgents to
dispense and retire peaceably to
their homes within limited time:
Now, therefore, 1, Ulyssus s.
Grant, President of the United
States, do hereby make proclama.
ton and command said turbulent and
disorderly persons to dispense and
retire peaceably to their respective
abodes within twenty days from this
date, and hereafter to submit to the
laws and constituted authorities of
said State, and / invoke the aid and
cooperation of all good citizens
thereof to uphold the law and pre-
serve the public peace.
In witness whereof l have hereun
to set my hand and caused the seal
OF the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington
this 22d day of May. in the year of
our Lord 1878, and of the independ-
ence of the United States the 9th.
By the President, u. 8. GRANT.
J. @. BANCROFT DAVIS,
Acting Seoy. of State.