Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-12-26
PROCLAMATION by the President


Proclamation by the President
WHEREAS. 1t is provided In the.
Constitution of the United States that
the United States shall protect every
Staten the Union. on the application
of the Legislature, or Of the Executive
when the Legislature can not be con-
venei. against domestic violence. and
WHEREAS Il is provided by the
laws OF the United States that in all
eases of Instruction in any State, or
obstruction to the laws thereof, it shall
he lawful for the President of the
United States, on the application of
the Legislature of such State. or of the
Executive when the Legislature can
not be convened, to call forth the
militia of any other State or States, or
TO employ such part Of the land and
naval force as shall be judged neces-
sary, for the purpose OF suppressing
such insurrection, or of causing the
laws to be duly executed. and
WHEREAS, The Legislature of the
State of Mississippi, now in session.
has represented to me, in concurrent
resolution by that body, that several
of the legally elected officers of War
rem county, in the said State, are pre-
vented from executing the duties of
their respective Offices by force and
violence; that the public buildings
and records of the said county have
been taken into possession OF and are
now held by lawless unauthorized per-
sons; that many peaceable citizens Of
said county haye been killed and that
others have been compelled to aban-
don and remain away from their homes
and families that illegal and riotous
seizures and imprisonments have been
made by such lawless persons; and
further that a large number of armed
men from adj cent States have invaded
Mississippi to aid such lawleSs persons,
and are still reary to give them such
aid,
WHEREAS, tits further represented
as aforesaid by the said Legislature,
that the courts of the said county can
not be held. and that the Governor of
the said State has not sufficient force
at his command to execute the hws
thereof in the said county, and to re-
press the said violence, without caus-
ing conflict OF races and endangering
life property to an alarming extent;
and
WHEREAS, The said Legislature as
aforesaid has made application to me
for such part of the military force of
the United States as may be necessary
and adequate to protect the said State
and the citizens thereof against the
domestic violence hereinbefore men,
toned, and to enforce the due execu-
ton of the laws; and,
WHEREAS, The laws of the United
States require that, whenever it may
be necessary in the judgment of the
President. to use the military force for
the purposes aforesaid, he shall forth
with, by procla nation, command such
insurgents to disperse and retire peace
ably to their respective abodes within
a limited time.
Now, therefore, I, Ulysses S. Grant,
President of the United States, do
hereby command said disorderly and
turbulent persons to dispense and re
tire peaceably to their respective abodes
within five days from the date hereof,
and that they refrain from forcible re-
sstance to the laws and submit them
selves peaceably to the lawful authori-
ties Of the said county and State
In witness thereof, / have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed,
u. S. GRANT.
Done at the City of Washington this
2ist day of December, in the year OF
our Lord 1874, and of the independ-
ence of the United States the nine
ty -ninth.
By the President. HAMILTON FISH,
Secretary of State
JACKSON, Mss, Dec. 21.-Forty-
nine Conservative members of the
Legislature have signed an address to
the people of the United States vind.-
eating their action in dissenting from
the majority in calling on the President
for troops, and in order to preserve
the Government name and fame of the
people of the State from the wicked
charges in the message of the Govern
or, and reiterated and Endorsed in the
proceedings of the LEGISLATURE. They
claim that perfect peace and order now
reign in Warren county, aud that
there has been no violence or blood
shed there except what was occasioned
by a manly defense of the people Of
Vicksburg against armed bodies of
men who were, by the cOnnivance Of
the Governor Of the State, marching
on that city for the purpose of bring
ing about a conflict of races. They
affirm that never in the past history of
the State has there prevailed among
its people stronger love of law and
order, more patient submission to
wrong, a firmer determination, under
all circumstances admitting of legal
redress, TO seek for it only through
proper means. The action of the Gov
ernor is based on no evidence what
ever. No testimony was taken, and
the resolution calling for troops was
cOpcocted and adopted as a party
measure, under the operation of the
previous question.
They assert that the Governor, who
investigated this action, is not even a
citizen of the State, and is an utter
stranger to our people, and wholly ig-
norant and uumindful OF their interests;
and that, in no single instance, so far
as they are aware, has he in any official
act or expression of private opinion
been betrayed into an exhibition of
the slightest concern for the interests
and welfare of the people of the State
Sale of the West Property.