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 legislature can not be
convened, against domestic violence; and

Whereas said Elisha Baxter, under section 4 of Article IV of the
Constitution of the United States and the laws passed in pursuance
thereof, has heretofore made application to me to protect said State
and the citizens thereof against domestic violence; and

Whereas the general assembly of said State was convened in 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 a 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
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 can not 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 and retire peaceably to their respective homes within a
limited time:

Now, therefore, I, Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States,
do hereby make proclamation and command all turbulent and disorderly
persons to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes
within ten days from this date, 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 hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington, t