Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-10-18
CABINET MEETING
South Carolina Affairs fully
Discussed.
A PROCLAMATION BY TIE
PRESIDENT.
TROOPS TO BE SENT SOUTH.

| WASHINGTON, October II. At the cabinet sea.
SION to-day every department of the Government
was represented. There was a full and earnest
discussion of the condition of affairs in South
Carolina as represented to tho gov, inu.tGt twin,
| chief executive of that State.
There is no order for additional troops IS it il
| not now considered that the necessity exists for a
force beyond that at present stationed in yarious
portions of the State where their services are re-
gaIded as necessary. The views of the cabinet
acting upon Information officially given to the
general government .were that prompt action was
necessary for the pun pose of dispensing the rifle
Clubs and other armed bodies organized as al
legged against the peace of the State and rights of
voters, and to th is end the Attorney General be-
gan the immediate preparation of the following
proclamation which was issued to night
BY the President of the United States,
PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, it has been satisfactorily shown that
instruction and domestic violence exist in sever
| al counties in the State of South Carolina and
that certain combinations OF men against the law
exist IN many counties, known as ar iiie Clubs 4"
who ride up and down by day aud night in arms
| numbering some peaceabe citizens, and ntmdat-
| ing others, which combinations, though forbidden
| by the laws OF the State. cannot be controlled or
| suppressed by 1.-THE ordinary course of Justice ;
and, whereas, it is provided in the constitution of
| the United states that the United States shall
| protect every State IN this Mon, application
of the legislature or the executive when the ley
islature cannot be convened, against domestic vi
| olence; and, whereas by laws in pursuance of
the above, it is provided, in the laws of the Uni
ted States, that all cases of instruction in any
state or OF obstruction to the laws thereof it
| shall be lawful for the President of the United
| States on the app cation of the legislature of
| such State or of the executive, when the egisa-
ture cannot be convened, to call for 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 suppressing such in
| sulTection or causing the laws to be duly execu-
ted; and. whereas the Legislature of said State is
not now IN session, and cannot he convened in
| time 10 meet the present emergency, and the Ex-
ecutlve OF the State under Section 4. of Article
| W. of the Constitution, of the laws passed in pur-
| suance thereof has therefore made due applica-
ton TO ne in the premises, for such part of the
military force of the United States as may be
| necessary and adequate to protect such State and
citizens thereof against domestic violence, and to
| enforce the due execution of the laws; and
whereas, it is required that whenever it may be
necessary, in the judgement of the President. to
use the military force for the purpose aforesaid,
| he shall forthwith by PROCLAMATION, command
such insurgents to dispeise and return peaceably
to their respective homes within a limited time.
| Now, therefore, |, Ulysses 5. Grant, president
Of the United States, do hereby make proclama-
| ton and command all persons engaged in said I'M
| lawful and insurrectionary proceedings, to dis
| perse and retire peaceably to their respective
abodes within three days from this date and here
| after abandon said combinations and submit them
selves to the laws and constituted authorities of
said State, and invoke the aid and CO operation
of all good citizens thereof to uphold the laws and
preserve the public peace.
In witness whereof, have hereunto set nv hand
and caused the seal Of the United States to be
affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this
18th day OF October, in the year OF our Lord
1876, and Of the Independence of the United
states, l0l.
(Signed) US. GRANT
BY the President,
JOHN l.. CALDwALLADA,
Acting sec'y of State.
| Considering that in view of the existing condi-
ton of affairs in South Carolina, there is posi-
bility that the proclamation of the President may
he disregarded, the Secretary of War has request
ed Gen. Sherman to Immediately order ali the
available force in the military division of the At
| lantic to report to Gen. Ruge~, commanding at
Columbia, and instruct that officer to station his
| troops in such localities that they may be most
speedily aud eifectualy used in of resistance
to the authority of the United States.