The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-12-25
MISSISSIPPI.
The President Issues His Proclamation
Commanding All " DisOrderly and
Turbulent Persons TO Dispense and Re-
tire PeaceablY.v etc. etc.


Commanding All DisOrderIy and
Turbulent Persons to Dispense and Re-
tire Peaceably," etc., etc.
WHEREAS, 1t is provided in the Constitution
of the United States that the United States
shall protect every State in the Union on ap-
plication of the Legislature, or Executive
when the Legislature cannot be convened
against domestic violence; and
WHEREAS 1t is provided by the laws OF
the United States, that in all cases OF insur-
rection or obstruction to the laws thereof,
it shall be lawful for the President OF the
United States. on application OF the Legis-
lature of such State, or the Executive when
the Legislature cannot be convened, to call
forth the militia of any other State or States,
or to employ such part of the land and naval
forces as shall be judged necessary for sup
pressing such instruction or OF causing the
laws to be duly executed; and
WHEREAS, The Legislature of the State of
Mississippi, now in session. have represented
| to me in a concurrent resolution Of that BODY
that several OF the legally elected officers
OF Warren county, in said State, are
prevented from executing the duties of their
respective offices by force and violence that
| the public buildings and records of said
county have been taken into possession of and
are now held by lawless and unauthorized
persons that many peaceable citizens of said
! county have been killed, and others have been
compelled to abandon and remain away from
their homes and families; that illega and riotous
seizures and imprisonments have been made
| by such lawess persons and, further, that a
| large number of armed men from adjacent
States have invaded Mississippi TO aid such
| lawless persons, and are still ready to give
them such aid and
WHEREAS, 1t is further represented, as
aforesaid, by the said Legislature. that the
courts of said county cannot be held, and that
the Governor of said State has not sufficient
force at his command to execute the laws
| thereof IN said county and suppress said
violence without causing a conflict of races
and endangering life and property to an
alarming extent and
WHEREAS, the said Legislature az afore-
said, have made application to me for such
part of the military force of the United States
as may be necessary and adequate to protect
said State and citizens thereof against domes-
| tic violence hereinbefore mentioned, and to
| enforce the due executi IN of the laws and
WHEREAS, The laws Of tho United States re
| quire that wheneverit may become necessary in
the judgment Of the President to use military
force for thepurposes aforesaid, he shall forth
with by proclamation command such insur-
| gents to dispense and retire peaceably to their
respective abodes within limited time
Now. therefore, /. Ulysses s. Grant, Presi-
dent Of the United States do hereby COM
mand such disorderly and turbulent persons
| to dispense and retire peaceably to their re-
spective abodes within five days from the date
hereof, and that they refrain from forcble
resistance to the laws and submit themselves
peaceably to the lawful authorities OF said
county and State.
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 21st
day OF December, in the year OF our Lord
1874 and Of the independence of the United
States the ninety-ninth.
BY the President L S. GRANT.
HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State.