Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-12-31
The Presidents Proclamation.

President Grant issued the following
proclamation on the 21st:
By the President Of tie United states Of Amaerica-
4 Proclamation:
WHEREAS, 1t is provided in the Constitution of
the United States that the United States shall
protect every State in the Union on application
of the Legislature, or 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 OF insurTection
obstruction to the laws thereof 1t snail be lawful
for the President Of the United States, appica-
ton of the Legislature of such State, or the Elk
ecutlYe 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 or naval
forces as shall be judged necessary for suppress
ing such instruction or Of causing the laws to be
duly executed; and
WHEREAS, The Legislature of the State of Mis-
sissippi, now in session, have represented to me
IN concurrent resolution of that body that sew
eral of the legally-eleCted officers of Warren
County, in said State, are prevented from exc
cutting the duties of their respective offices by
force and violence; that the public buildings and
records of said county have been taken possession
Ofand are now held by lawless and unauthorized
persons; that many peaCeable citizens of said
county have been killed and others been com
PEELED to abandon and remain away from their
homes and families that Illegal and riOtous seiZ-
ures and Imprisonment have been made by such
iHWlSSS PERSONS ana, IurJner. JldL s. large num-
Der OF armed men from adjacent States have in
vaded Mississippi to aid such laWless persons,
and are still ready to give them such aid; and
WHEREAS, 1t Is further represented, afore
said, by 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, Said Legislature, aforesaid, have
made application to me for such part Of the mill
sary and adequate to protect said State and citi-
zens thereof against the domestic violence here
inbeforc mentioned, and to enforce a due execU-
ton of the laws; and
WHEREAS The laws of the United States re-
quire that whenever it may be necessary in the
judgment OF the President to the military
force for the purposes aforesaid. he shall forth
with, by proclamation, command such insurgents
to dispense and retire peaceably to their abodes
within a limited time:
Now, therefore, l, Ulysses S. Grant President
Of the United States, do hereby command such
disorderly and turbulent persons to disperse and
retire peaceably to their respective abOdes within
five DAYS from the date hereof, and that they
frain from fOTCible resistance to the laws, and
that they submit themselves peaCeably to the
lawful authorities of said county and State
In witness whereof l have hereuntO set my
hand, and caused the seal OF the United States 10
be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this twenty-frst
day of December, in the year of our Lord 1874,
and of the independence of the United States
the ninety-ninth U. S. GRANT.