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 854 - PROOLAMATION S. Done at the city of Washington this twenty-ninth day of October, in . the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy- [SEAL.] four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the ninety-ninth. U. S. GRANT. By the President: Hmmron Frsn, Secretary of State. N0. 11L Dc4g_ 21, 1574, BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. " A PBOCLAMATION. · Preamble. 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 legislature cannot be convened), against domestic violence; and Whereas it is provided by 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 State or States, or to employ such part of the land and naval three as shall be judged necessary for the purpose of suppressing such insurrection, or of causing the laws to be duly executed; and Whereas the legislature of the State of Mississippi, now in session, have represented to mc, in a concurrent resolution of that body, that several of the legally elected officers of Warren County, in said State, are prevented from executihg the duties of their respective offices by force and. violence—that the public buildings and records of said county have been taken into the possession of, and are now held' by, lawless and unauthorized persons-that many peaceable citizens of said county have been killed, and' others have been compelled to abandon, and remain away from, their homes and families-—-that illegal and xiotous seizures and imprisonments have been made by such lawless persons-and, further, that a large numberof armed men from adjacent States have invaded Mississippi to aid such lawless persons, and are still ready to give them such aid, and , Whereas it is further represented as aforesaid, by said legislature, that the courts of said county cannot be held, and that the Governor of said State has no sufficient force at his command to execute the laws thereof in said county and suppress said violence, without causing a conilict of races and endangering life and property to an alarming extent; and ·. — _ ` Whereas the said legislature, as aforesaid, have made application to me for such partof the military force of the United States as may be necessary and adequate to protect said State and the citizens thereof against the domestic violence hereinbefore mentioned, and to enforce the due execution of the laws; and Whereas the laws of the United States require that, whenever itmay be necessary, in the judgment of the President, to use the military force for the purposes aibresaid, he shall forthwith, by proclamation, command such insurgents to disperse and retire peaceably to their respect- _ ive. abodes within a limited time: 9,;;]*; _Now, therefore, I, ULYSSES S. GRANT, President .of the United in M,;,,,,,,,, ,,,0,,,,,, States, do hereby command said disorderly and turbulent persons to runnueumgisperse. disperse and retire pcaceably to their respective abodes within five days from the date hereof, and that they refrain from forcible resistance to