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 g46» PBOCLAMATIONS. Lao. 6. M¤y1s,1B74. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROOLAMATION. pm,,,;,],,_ Whereas certain turbulent and disorderly persons; pretending that Elisha Baxter, the present executive of Arkansas, vyas not elected, have combined together with force and arms to resist his authority as such executive, and other authorities of said State; and Whereas said Elisha Baxter has been declared duly elected by the General Assembly of said State, aeprovided in the constitution thereof, and has for a long period been exercising the functions of said office, into which he was inducted according to the constitution and laws of said State, and ought by its citizens to be considered as the lawful executive thereof; and Whereas it is provided in the Constitution of ·the United States that the United States shall protect every State in the Union, on application of. the legislature, or of the executive when the legisinture cannot be convened, against domestic violence; and. Whereas said Elisha Baxter, under section 4 of artiele IV of the Constitution of the United States and the lews passed in pursuance thereof, has heretofore made application to meto protect said State and the citizens thereof against domestic violence; and Whereas the General Assembly of said State was oonvenedin extra session at the capital thereof on the 11th instant, pursuant to a call made by said Elisha Baxter, and both houses thereof have passed si joint resolution also applying to me to protect the State against domestic violence; and ‘ Whereas it is provided in the laws of the United States that in ull eases of insurrection in any State, or of obstruction to the laws thereof; it shell 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 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 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 end retire peaceably to their respective homes within n. limited time; _Tu»t u len t and Now, therefore, I, Umzssms S. G—n.AM·,‘ President of the United States, _ ?;¤‘§g;;LYmP:*;<::¤ do hereby malge proclamation and command all turbulent and disorderly mmm to mmm; persons to disperse and retire peuceebly to their respective abodes M_1w mm, W, d,y,_ within ten days from this da.te,.and hereafter to submit themselves to the lawful authority of said executive and the other constituted authorities of said State; and I invoke the aid and cooperation of all good citizens thereof to uphold law and preserve public peace. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my bend, and canned the-sem of the United States to be affixed. . ` Done at the city of Washington this fifteenth day of Ma.y,iq the your ot' our Lord eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and`of the In- · [smut.] dependence of the United States the ninetyeighth. _ U. S. GRANT. By the President: Hnmmonx Fisn, Secretary of State.