 Whereas the laws of the United States have been for some time past, and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful...  Illustrated Life, Services, Martyrdom, and Funeral of Abraham Lincoln ... - Page 97edited by - 1865 - 285 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Williamson - History - 2004 - 460 pages
...Beauregard's Confederate force. The next day, President Lincoln declared that insurrection had broken out in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, immediately calling out 75,000 militia from the remaining states. Lincoln's call was accepted by all... | |
 | Rodman L. Underwood - History - 2003 - 214 pages
...A 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... | |
 | Edward A. Pollard - History - 2004 - 760 pages
...to his Government. On the very day of the * The following is a full copy of this important paper : " Whereas, the laws of the United States have been for...: 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... | |
 | History - 2004 - 556 pages
...VOLUNTEERS AND AN EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas; The laws of the United States have been for...— 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... | |
 | James P. Reger - Fiction - 2004 - 280 pages
...war against this Confederacy. 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 avows that 'the first service to be assigned to the forces called out' will be not to execute the... | |
 | Michael Flannery - Medical - 2004 - 384 pages
...the commander in chief simply claimed the "combinations [of the South] too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law."56 Lincoln further minimized the crisis by convening Congress not immediately but in eighty days.... | |
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