the American name should be sullied by
the outrages of citizens on their own government, commiserating
such as remain obstinate from delusion, but resolved, in perfect
reliance on that gracious Providence which so signally displays its
goodness toward this country, to reduce the refractory to a due
subordination to the laws, do hereby declare and make known, with a
satisfaction which can be equalled only by the merits of the
militia summoned into service from the states of New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, that I have received
intelligence of their patriotic alacrity in obeying the call of the
present, though painful, yet commanding necessity; that a force,
which according to every reasonable expectation is adequate to the
exigency, is already in motion to the scene of disaffection; that
those who shall have confided or shall confide in the protection of
government shall meet full succor under the standard and from the
arms of the United States; that those who, having offended against
the laws, have since entitled themselves to indemnity, will be
treated with the most liberal good faith, if they shall not have
forfeited their claim by any subsequent conduct, and that
instructions are given accordingly.

"And I do moreover exhort all individuals, officers, and bodies of
men, to contemplate with abhorrence the measures leading, directly
or indirectly, to those crimes which produce this resort to
military coercion; to check, in their respective spheres, the
efforts of misguided or designing men to substitute their
misrepresentation in the place of truth, and their discontents in
the place of stable government; and to call to mind, that as the
people of the United States have been permitted, under the Divine
favor, in perfect freedom, after solemn deliberation, and in an
enlightened age, to elect their own government, so will their
gratitude for this inestimable blessing be best distinguished by
firm exertion to maintain the constitution and the laws.

"And, lastly, I again warn all persons whomsoever and wheresoever,
not to abet, aid or comfort the insurgents aforesaid, as they will
answer the contrary at their peril; and I do also require all
officers and other citizens, as far as may be in their power, to
bring under the cogniz