Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-12-22
WASHINGTON.
Proclamation by the President.


BY the President of the United States of America
"A Proclamation.
Washington, December Dist.
Whereas 1t is provided in the constitution of
the United States, that the United States shall
protect every State in the Union, application of
the legislature or of the executive when the legis
lature cannot be convened against domestic vio-
lence, and
Whereas, 1t is provided by the laws of the
United States, that in all cases in instruction in
any State, of any obstruction to the laws there
of it shall he lawful for the President of the
United States, on application of the legislature of
such State, or Of the executive, when the legisla
ture cannot be convened to call ferth the militia
of any other State or States, or to employ such
part of the land and naval force shall be judged
necessary fol the purpose of suppressing such in
surrocton, or by causing the laws to be duly exc
cuted, and
Whereas, The legislature Of the State of Miss
issppi, now in session, has represented to me ia a
concurrent resolution of that body that several of
the leg ally elected officers of Warren county, in
said State, are prevented from executing the du-
ties of their respective Offices by force and vo
lence; 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 illegal and riotous
seizures have been made by such lawless persons,
and further that large number of armed men from
! adjacent states have invaded Nisslssinpi to aid
such lawless nersons and are still ready to give
them such aid, and
Whereas, 1t is further represented, as aforesaid,
by said legislature that the courts Of said county
cannot he held and that the Governor of said
State has sufficient force at his command to ex-
ecute the laws thereof, IN sald county, ana sup
| press sald violence wIho9t causing conlllct Oh
races ana endangerng HE ana properly 10 an
alarming extent; ana c.., ,o
whereas, oalu leglsiatufe, as AFORESAID, nave
made application 10 me Tor SUCH part OF the gos :
ernment force OF the Cnled states as may De
necessary ana equa'e 10 prolect sara otate auo
me citiAens thereoi against inc aomestc Viole1ee
| hereinoelore mentloneu, ana 10 ENFORCE 'he que
! execution Oh I'M rne laws anu ...,c.....:..
,hot nhcnever Il NAV he necessarv in the ;rdo.
ment of the President, to use military force Tor
| the purposes aforesaid, he shall forthwith, by
proclamation, command such insurgents to dis
perse and retire peaceably to their respective
| abodes within a limited time
Now, therefore, l. Ulysses S. Grant, President
of the United States, do hereby command said
persons to dispense and retire to their respective
abodes within five days from date hereof, and they
| refrain from forcible resistance to the laws and
submit themselves peaceably to the lawful author
| tiles 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 Washing