The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-05-19
WASHINGTON, May15.

WASHINGTON, May Is.
The following is the presidents procla.
nation relative to the Arkansas question,
which has been telegraphed to Little
Rock for information of all concerned:
BY the president of the United States OF
America
A proclamation Whereas certain tur.
bulent and dsorderly persons pretending
that Elisha Baxter, present executive Of
Arkansas, was not reelected, have COM
bined together with force and arms to re-
sist bis authority as such executive and
other authorities of said state and,
WHEREAS, Said Elisha Baxter has been
declared duly elected by the general as
sembly Of said state, as provided in the
constitution thereof, and has, for a long
period been exercising the functions Of
said office, into which he was indicted
according to the constitution and laws Of
said state. and ought, by its citizens, be
considered the lawful executive thereof,
and.
WHEREAS, 1t is provided in the con-
stitution Of the United States that the
United States shall protect every state in
the Union, on application of the legisa'
turo, or of the executive, when the legis-
lature cannot be convened, against domcs'
tic violence, and,
WHEREAS, Said Elisha Baxter, under
section a Of article 4, Of the constitution
of the United Safes, and laws passed in
pursuance thereof, has heretofore made
application to me to protect said state and
citizens thcreof,against domestic violence
and,
WHEREAS, The general assembly O
said state, convened in extra session, al
the capital thereof, on the llth instant
pursuant to call made by said Elisht
Baxter and both houses thereof have
passed joint resolution, applying to ms
to protect the state against domestic VIC
lence and,
WHEREAS, 1t is provided III the law
of the United States that in all cases o
insurrection to the laws thereby. it sha'
be lawful for the President Of the United
States, on application of the Legislature
Of such state, or 90 executive when til
legislature cannot be convoned, to emplo
such part of the land and naval forces a
shall BE- judged necessary for the purpos
' O. suppressing such instruction, causin
: the laws to be duly executed and,
WHEREAS, 1t is required that whenev
er it may be necessary in the judglnen
!, of the President TO use military force 70
the purpose aforesaid he shall forthwith
by proclamation, command such insul
gents to tisperse aud retire peaceably
their respective homes within Unite
time now therefore,
D |, Ulysses S Grant, President OF Ii
{ United States, do hereby make procli
5 nation aud command all turbulent an
;. disorderly persons to disperse and retil
J peaceaby to their respective abodes will
e in ten days from this date, and horeait'
e submit themselves to the lawful authoril
D to said executive and other consolidate
" authorities Of said state, and invoke Il
n aid and cooperation Of all good citize'
= to uphold the law and preserve publ
&C peace.
n In witness whereof have hercunto 5
e my hand aud caused the seal Of Il
g United States TO be affixed done
the city OF Washington, this fifteen
IS day Of May, in the year of our lio'
C. eighteen hundred and sevcn,y-iour, al
1. of the independence Of the Unit,
"a States the ninoty.eighth.
81 L. : GRANT, President.
n il>NiLroN FISH, Secretary OF State.