...over Fort Sumpter. On the 15th of April, President Lincoln issued the following proclamation : — " Whereas the laws of the United States have been for...Texas by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law ; now,...

...tht Praident, April 1'i, 1801.] BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. • A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS the laws of the United States have been for...Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law : Now,...

...session of Congress, to convene July 4th. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES —A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, the laws of the United States have been for...Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas^ by a combination too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the...

...than the proclamation of April 15, 1861 : — 13 " The laws of the United States have been for somc time past and now are opposed, and the execution thereof...Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law. " Now,...

...treated as pirates : " 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 efficiently executed...

...insurrection against the laws, Constitution, and government of tinUnited States, which had broken out within the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, and in pursuance of the provisions of the act entitled "An act to provide for calling forth the militia...

...interest might demand. On the 19th of April, he issued another Proclamation, declaring the ports of the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi. Louisiana and Texas — thrum is of all the States that had seceded — in a state of blockade. On the 2?th of April, he...

...purposes of his government, that he would modify his inaugural only so far as to " perhaps cause the United States mails to be withdrawn" from the seceded...the ordinary course of judicial proceeding, or by the powers vested in the Marshals by law— " Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the...

...assaulted, and captured. On the 15th of April, 1861, President Lincoln made proclamation commencing thus : "Whereas the laws of the United States have been for...Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law : "...

...issued his declaration of war. It is couched in earnest and dignified terms, and runs as follows : " Whereas, the laws of the United States have been for...Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers invested in the marshals by law ;...