 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 pages
...Volunteers and an Extra Session of Congress. By the President of the United States. A Proclamation. Whereas; The laws of the United States have been for...proceedings, or by the powers vested in the Marshals loa by law, — now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, in virtue of the... | |
 | John W. Burgess - History - 2005 - 353 pages
...first declared that the execution of the laws of the United States were, and for some time had been, " obstructed in the States of South Carolina, Georgia,...proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law." Mr. Lincoln thus distinctly indicated the view, at the outset, that he was dealing, not with nations... | |
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WHEREAS the laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to... 
