Year: 1875

The President issued the following
Mississippi on the 21st:


By the President Of the United States of america
"A Proclamation:


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 Executive when the Legs-
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 insurrection
obstruction to the laws thereof it shall be lawful
for the President of the United States, on appli-
cation of the Legislature of such State, or the
Executive when the Legislature cannot be con-
vened, 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 sup
pressing such insurrection 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 legaly-elected officers of War
ren County, in said State, prevented from
executing the duties of their respective offices by
force and violence; that the public buildings and
records of said county have been taken pos
session of and are now held by lawless and un-
authorized persons; that many peaceable citizens
of said county have been killed. and others been
compelled to abandon and remain away from
their homes and families; that illegal and riotous
seizures and imprisonment have been made by
such lawless persons; and further, that q





have invaded Mississippi to aid such lawless per-
sons and are still ready to give them such aid; (;
and


WHEREAS, 1t is further represented as 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 conflict
of races and endangering life and property to an
alarming extent; and


WHEREAS, Said Legislature, as aforesaid have
do fn mo s1Ch q mi III.
tary force of the United States as may be neces-
sary and adequate to protect said State and citi-
zens thereof against the domestic violence here
inbefore mentioned, and to enforce due execu-
tion of the laws; and


WHEREAS, The laws of the United States re-
uuire that, whenever it may be necessary in the
Judgment of the President to use the military
force for the purposes aforesaid, he shall forth
with, by proclamation command such insurgents
to disperse 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 with
in five days from the date hereof, and that they
refrain from forcible resistance to the laws, and
that they submit themselves peaceably to the
lawful authorities 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 Washington this twenty-first


day of December, in the year of our Lord 1874


and of the independence of the United States


the nlnety-ninth. U. S. GRANT