...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, 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...

...declaring a blockade of every port of the States in insurrection, in the following terms : WHEREAS, An insurrection against the Government of the United...the United States for the collection of the revenue can not be efficiently executed therein conformably to that provision of the Constitution which requires...

...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 ... I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, hereby do call forth the militia of the -^r...

...would stand by the Government, the President. The Cabinet met. A proclamation was framed. It named the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas as having "combinations too powerful to be suppressed" by ordinary procedure of government. "Now therefore,...