The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-03-11
one thousand eight hundred and seventy
[sEAL.l three, and of the Independence of the
United States the ninety-eighth.
U. s. GRANT.
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH,
Secretary of State.
No. 6.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA.
A PROCI NATION


AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas. certain turbulent and disorderly per-
SONS, pretending that Elisha Baxter, the present
Executive of Arkansas, was not elected, have COM
bined together with force and arms to resist his
authority such Executive, and other authorities
of said State; and
Whereas, said Elisha Baxter has been declared
duly elected by the General Assembly of said State
provided in the Constitution thereof, and has
for long period been exercising the functions of
said Office, into whichhe was inducted according 10
the Constitution and laws of said State, and ought
by its citizens to be considered as the lawful Ex-
ecutiye thereof; and
Whereas it 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 of the Executive when the Legisla-
ture cannot be convened, against domestic vio-
slence; and
Whereas, said Elisha Baxter. under Section of
Article w of the Constitution of the United
States and the laws passed in pursuance thereof,
has heretofore made application to me to protect
said State and the citizens thereof against domestic
violence; and
Whereas, the General Assembly of said State
was convened in extra session at the capital thereof
the 18th instant, pursuant to call made by said
Elisha Baxter, and both houses thereof have passed
joint resolution also applying to me to protect the
State against domestic violence; and
Whereas, it is provided in the laws of the United
States that in all of insurrecicn in any state
or of obstruction to the laws thereof, Il shall be
application of the Legislature of such State or OF
the Executive when the Legislature cannot be con-
vened, to employ such part of the land and naval
forces shall be judged necessary for the purpose
of suppressing such insurrection, or causing the
laws to be duly executed; and
Whereas, it Is required that whenever it may De
necessary in the judgment of the President to use
the military force for the purpose aforesaid, ne
shall forthwith, by proclamation, command such
insurgents to disperse and retire peaceaby to their
respective homes within limited time:
Now, therefore, /, ULYSSES s. GRANT, President
of the United States, do hereby make proclamation
and command all turbulent and disorderiy persons
to dsperse and retire peaceaby to their respective
abodes within ten days from this date, and here
after to submit themselves to the lawful authority
of said Executive and the other constituted author
tiles of said State, and / invoke the aid and CO
operation of all good citizens thereof to uphold
law and preserve public peace.
In witness whereof have hereunto set my hand,
and caused the seal of the United States to be at
fixed.
Done at the city of Washington this fifteenth day
of May, in the year of our Lord eighteen
hundred and seventy -four, and of the In
lsLAAI dependence of the United States the
ninety-eghth. U. s. GRANT.
BY the President:
HAMILTON FISH,
Secretary of State.