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PROGLAMATIONS. No. 1. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. May 22, 1mg_ A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, under the pretence that William P. Kellogg, the present Pr¤¤¤¤¤•>· cxecutiveof Louisiana, and the officers associated with him in the State administration, were not duly elected, certain turbulent and disorderly persons have combined together with fprce and arms to resist the laws and constituted authorities of said State; and l Whereas it has been duly certified by the proper local authorities, and judiciallytdetermined by the inferior and supreme courts of said State, that said officers are entitled to hold their offices respectively, and execute and discharge the functions thereof; and Whereas Congress, at its late session, upon a due consideration of the subject, tacitly recognized the said executive and his associates then, ag now, in office, by refusing to take any action with respect thereto; an _ , . Whereas it is provided in the Constitution of the United States that the United States shall protect every State in this Union, on application of the legislature, or of the executive when the legislature cannot he convened, against domestic violence; and - Whereas it is provided in the laws of the United States, that in all cases of insurrection in any State, or of obstruction to the laws thereof, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, on application of the legislature of such State, or of the executive when the legislature cannot `be convened, to call forth the militia of any other Statcor States, or to employ such part of the land and naval forces as shall be judged necessary for the purpose of suppressing such insurrection or causing the laws to be duly executed ; and . Whereas the legislature of said State is not now in session, and cannot be convened in time to meet the present emergency; and the executive of said State, under section 4 of article IV of the Constitution of the United States, and the laws passed in pursuance thereof, has, therefore, made application to me for such part of the military force of the United States as may be necessary and adequate to protect said State and the citizens thereof against domestic violence and to enforce the due execution of the laws ; and Whereas it is required that whenever it may be necessary, in the judgment of the President, to use the military force for the purpose aforesaid, he shall forthwith, by proclamation, command such insurgents to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective homes within a limited time: Now, therefore, I, ULYSSES S. GRANT, President of the United States, jrurb n I on t and do hereby make proclamation and command said turbulent and d1so1·-¢*¤<Ed°f*¥wn“P2';°;f derly persons to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes u"Q,mé’,Q‘d“Q;) dispmg Within twenty days from this date,` and hereafter to submit themselves gm, within twenty · to the laws and constituted authorities of said State; and I invoke the nays. aid and cooperation of all good citizens thereof to uphold law and preserve thepublic peace.