The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-03-11
Official.
LAWS OF THE U. STATES.
Passed at tie First Session Of tie 43d
Congress.
PROCIAMATIONS. n S.
No. l.
Y THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA
APPROXIMATION


Whereas, under the pretence that Will
liam P. Kellogg, the present executive OF
Louisiana, and the officers associated with
him in the State administration, were not
duly elected, certain turbulent and disord-
erly persons have combined together with
force and arms to resist the laws and con-
stituted authorities of said State; and
Whereas it has been duly certified by the
proper local authorities, and judiciaily de-
termined by the inferior and supreme
courts of said State, that said officers are
entitled to hold their offices respectively,
and execute and discharge the functions
thereof; and
Whereas Congress, at its late session, up
on n due consideration of the subject, taclt-
ly recognized the said executive and his
associates then, as now, in office, by retus-
ing to take any action with respect thereto;
and
Whereas it is provided in the Constitu-
ton of the United States that the United
States shall protect every State IN this
Union, on application of the legislature, or
of the executive when the Legislature can
not be convened, against domestic Vlo-
lence; and
Whereas it is provided in the laws of the
United States, that in all cases of lnsur-
rection in any State, or obstruction OF the
laws thereof, it shall be lawful for the
President of the United States, on appi-
cation of the legislature of such state, or OF
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 the purpose OF sup
pressing such insurrection or causing the
laws to be duly executed; and
Whereas the legislature of said State is
not now in session, and cannot be conven-
ed in time to meet the present emergency
and the executive of said State, under sec
ton 4 of article " of the Constitution of
the United States, and the laws passed In
pursuance thereof, has, therefore, made
application to me for such part of the mill
tary. force of the United States as may be
necessary and adequate to protect SAID
State and citizens thereof against domestic
violence, and to enforce the due execution
of the laws; and :.
Whereas it is required that whenever it
NAV be necessary, in the judgment of the
President, to use the military force for the
purpose aforesaid, he shall forthwith, by
proclamation, command such insurgents to
disperse and retire peaceably to their re-
spective homes within limited time:
Now, therefore, l, ULYSSES S. GRANT,
President of the United States, do hereby
make proclamation and command said tur-
bulent and disorderly persons to disperse
and retire peaceably to their respective
abodes within twenty days from this date,
and hereafter submit themselves to the
laws and constituted authorities of said
State; and l invoke the aid and co-opera-
ton of all GOOD citizens thereof to uphold
law and preserve public peace.
In witness whereof l have hereunto set
nv hand, and caused the seal of the Uni
ted States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this
twenty-second day of May, in the
rsEAL1 year of our Lord eighteen hundred
and seventy-three, and of the Inde-
pendence of the United States the
ninety-seventh.
U. S. GRANT.
By the President:
]. G. BANCROFT DAVIS,
Acting Secretary Of State.