...südlichen Häfen betr. — Whereas an insurrection against the Government of the United States j(0 ^ has broken out in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, vereinigt« Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, and the laws of the United States for **"^tj the collection...

...19th of April, President Lincoln issued a Proclamation4 declaring that a blockade of the ports within the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, would be established for the purpose of collecting the revenue in the disturbed part of the country,...

...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 be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by...

...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 be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by...

...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 be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by...

...April Wt 1861 x . '; BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION ;-.: WHEREAS an insurrection against the Government of the United States has broken out in the Slates of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, and the laws...

...journals: The following is the President's proclamation of the blockade of the southern ports : An insurrection against the Government of the United...Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, and the law of the United States cannot be executed effectually therein conformably to that provision of the...

...journals: Tbe following is the President's proclamation of the blockade of the southern ports : An insurrection against the Government of the United...Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiaua, and Texas, and the law of the United States cannot be executed effectually therein conformably...

...broken out iu the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, arid Texas, and the laws of the United States for the collection...cannot be effectually executed therein conformably tothttf provision of the Constitution which requires duties to be uniform throughout the United States...

.... . Now, therefore, I ... have . . . deemed it advisable to set on foot a blockade of the ports [of the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas] ... in pursuance of the laws of the United States, and of the law of Nations. . . . For this purpose...