provide for the calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress
insurrections and repel invasions. (Art. I, sec. 8, Constitution of the United States.)
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form
of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application
of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened),
against domestic violence. (Art. IV, sec. 4, Constitution.)

PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF

MAJOR-GENERAL HENRY C. CORBIN,
Adjutant-General, U. S. Army,

CONTENTS.

Employment of troops in enforcement of the laws

I. The constitutional guaranty; its history

II. From the adoption of the Constitution to the second war with Great

Britain.....

The whisky insurrection, 1794

Fries's insurrection, 199

Burr's conspiracy, 1805–1807.

The embargo troubles, 1808 ..

III. From the reorganization of the Army to the fugitive-slave riots.

IV. From the Kansas troubles to the end of the war of the rebellion...

Disturbances in Kansas, 1854-1858..

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129

The San Francisco, Cal., vigilance committee, 1856 .

The Mormon rebellion, 1851-1858...

The Utah expedition, 1857

Disturbances at Provo, Utah, 1859

The affair at Harpers Ferry, Va., 1859.

The war of the rebellion, 1861-1865

V. The reconstruction period...

Brigandage in Missouri, 1866..

Riots at Norfolk, Va., 1866..

The Memphis, Tenn., riots, 1866

Fenian invasion of Canada, 1866

Riots at Mobile, Ala., 1867

Riot at Franklin, Tenn., 1867.

The Nashville, Tenn., election, 1867.

The Ku-Klux Klan, 1866-1872.

Riot at Unionville, S. C., 1871

Disorders in Gulf States, 1868.

Lawlessness in Arkansas, 1868

Riot at Camilla, Ga., 1868 ..

Lawlessness in Texas, 1868--1870

Riot at Millican, Tex., 1868..

Riot at Mobile, Ala., 1869