...than the proclamation of April 15, 1861 : — 13 " The laws of the United States have been for somc time past and now are opposed, and the execution thereof..." Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, in virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution and the laws, have thought...

...session of Congress, to convene July 4th. 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^ by a combination too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the...

...fall of Fort Sumter, he calls oil the militia to suppress " combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law." It is not till August that he will speak of a " state of insurrection," as distinct from particular...

...half a million of square miles. He terms sovereign States ' combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law.' He calls for an army of 75,000 men to act as a posse comitatvs in aid of the process of the courts...

...fall of Fort Sumter, he calls on the militia to suppress " combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law." It is not till August that he will speak of a " state of insurrection," as distinct from particular...

...were being " opposed," their execution obstructed, " by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals," and he therefore decided, as he was bound to do, " to call forth " such of the militia as he deemed...

...States were being "opposed," their execut'mn obstructed, " by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals," and he therefore decided, as he was hound to do, "to call forth " such of the militia as he deemed...

...treated as pirates : " 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 efficiently executed...

...States were being "opposed," their execution obstructed, " by combinations too powerful tobe suppressed by the ordinary course « of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in tho marshals," and he therefore decided, as he was bound to do, "to call forth" such of tho militia...

...interest might demand. On the 19th of April, he issued another Proclamation, declaring the ports of the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi. Louisiana and Texas — thrum is of all the States that had seceded — in a state of blockade. On the 2?th of April, he...