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 APPENDIX. PROCLAMATIONS. NOS. 52, 53. 799 ent government of Nicaragua shall be overthrown by force. Besides, the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of that government in the United States has issued a notice, in pursuance of his instructions, dated on the 27th instant, forbidding the citizens or subjects of any nation, except passengers intending to proceed through Nicaragua over the Transit Route from ocean to ocean, to enter its territory without a regular passport, signed by the proper minister or cousulgeneral of the republic resident in the country from whence they shall have departed. Such persons, with this exception, “ will be stopped and _ compelled to return by the same conveyance that took them to the country." From these circumstances, the inference is irresistible that persons en ved in this expedition will leave the United States with hostile purposes againggdiicaragua. They cannot, under the guise which they have assumed, that they are peaceful emE·ants, conceal their real intentions, and especially when they know, in advance, at their landing will be resisted, and can only be accomplished by an overpowering force. This expedient was successfully resorted to previous to the last expedition, and the vessel in which those ccmposinrr it were conveyed to Nicaragua, obtained 2. clearance from the collector of the port of Mobile. Although, after a careful examination, no arms or munitions of war were discovered on board, yet, when they arrived in Nicaragua, they were found to be armed and equipped and immediately commenced hostilities. The leaders of former illegal expeditious of the same character have openly expressed their intention to renew hostilities against Nicaragua. One cf' them, who has already been twice expelled from Nicaragua, has invited, through the public newspapers, American citizens to emigrate to that republic, and has designated Mobile as the lace of rendezvous and departure, and San Juan del Norte as the port to which they are bound. This person, who has renounced his allegiance to the United States, and claims to be President of Nicaragua, has given notice to the collector of the port of Mobile that two or three hundred of these emigrants will be prepared to embark from that port about the middle of November. For these and other good reasons, and for the pu cse of saving American citizens who may have been honestly deluded into thexEeliet' that they are about to proceed to Nicaragua as peaceful emigrants, if any such there be, from the disastrous consequences to which they will be exposed, I, JAMES BUCHANAN, President of the United States, have thought it tit to issue this my proclamation enjoining upon all officers of the government, civil and milita, in their r<espective spheres, to be vigilant, active, and faithful in suppressing these illegal enterpriscs, and m carrying out their standing instructions to that effect; exhorting all good citizens, by their respect for the laws and their regard for the peace and welfare of the country, to aid the eiforts of the public authorities in the discharge of their duties. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the sca! of the United States to be affixed to these presents. Done at the city of Washington, the thirdeth day of October, one thou- [L S] sand eight hundred and ii_fty-eight, and of the independence of the 'United States the eighty-third. ` JAMES BUCHANAN. BY THE PRESIDENT: LEWIS CASS, Secretary of State. No. 53. Oonvening an Extraordinary Session of the Senate of the United States. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Feb. 26, 1859. A PRO CLAMATION. WHEREAS an extraordinary occasion has occurred rendering it necessary and proper that the Senate of the United States shall be convened to receive and act gon such communications as have been or may be made to it on the part of the xecutive : Now, therefore, I, JAMES BUCHANAN, President of the United States, do issue this my proclamation, declaring that an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene for the transaction of business at the