...beyond all earthly power. Sincerely your friend in common affliction. The Call to Arms (April 15, 1861) Whereas the laws of the United States have been for...Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law: Now,...

...[NY, 1861.] Fol. B., Mar. 5, '21. (81) $37.50 By the President of the United States. A Proclamation. Whereas the laws of the United States have been, for...Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. [First call for troops.] [Dated and signed] ApriJ isth, 1861. Abraham Lincoln. [Wash., 1861.] 410....

...power vested in him by the Constitution and the laws, declared that the laws of the United States were opposed and the execution thereof obstructed in the...Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals of the law;...

...day following Anderson's evacuation of the fort, President Lincoln issued the following PROCLAMATION "Whereas, the laws of the United States have been...Texas by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law : "Now,...

...points in dispute from a Northern standpoint. "The laws of the United States," said the President, " have been for some time past, and now are opposed,...execution thereof obstructed, in the states of South i86il Uprising of the People 453 Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas,...

...Vol. I., pp. 68 scq. For comments of the press see Moore, Rebellion Record, I., 64-69 of documents. " WHEREAS the laws of the United States have been, for...execution thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolinaj Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful...

...April 15, 1861, in which he called for seventy-five thousand "of the militia of the States, by saying: "Whereas the laws of the United States have been for...Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings;" and closed by commanding "the persons composing the...

...Noah Brooks, Washington in Lincoln's Time, p. 8. past, and still were, opposed and their execution obstructed in the States of South Carolina, Georgia,...Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law ; and...

...(Proclamation.) Whereas an insurrection against the Government of the United States has broken out in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, and the laws of the United States for the collection of the revenue can not be effectually executed...

...in this fashion : Whereas an insurrection against the Government of the United States has broken out in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, and the laws of the United States for the collection of the revenue cannot be effectually executed...