...for the purpose of enabling the loyal people of said State to organize a State government %vhereby justice may be established, domestic tranquillity...Andrew Johnson, President of the United States and Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, do hereby appoint William Marvin provisional...

...North Carolina, in securing them in the enjoyment of a republican form of government; now, therefore, I, Andrew Johnson, President 'of the United States and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, do hereby appoint William W. Holden Provisional Governor of the State of North Carolina."...

...solemn duties imposed upon me by the Constitution of the United States, and for the purpose of ennbliup the loyal people of said State to organize a State...justice may be established, domestic tranquillity in1 Sidney Clark, of Lawrence. (960) eared, and loyal citizons protected in all their rights of life,...

...April in the present year, appears to be indispensably necessary : "Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy thereof, and of the militia of the several States when called into actual service, do hereby call into...

...form of government : Now, therefore, in obedience to the high and solemn duties imposed upon me by the Constitution of the United States, and for the purpose of enabling the people of the said State to organize a state government, whereby justice may be established, domestic...

...country, wherein the names of the states in rebellion were cited; and then, by virtue of his power as President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, he ordered and declared that "all persons held as slaves within said designated states and parts of...

...the high and solemn duties imposed n me by the Constitution of the United States and for the purpose enabling the loyal people of said State to organize a State government justice may be established, domestic tranquillity insured, and citizens protected in all their rights...

...republican form of government: Now, therefore, in obedience to the high and solemn duties imposed upon me by the Constitution of the United States, and for the...Andrew Johnson, President of the United States and Coinmander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, do hereby appoint William W. Holden...

...John H. Surratt, maliciously, unlawfully, and traitorously murdering the said Abraham Lincoln, then President of the United States, and Commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, as aforesaid, and maliciously, unlawfully, and traitorously assaulting, with intent...

...political expediency. My reply, however, to the President would be — "Sir, the power is in your hands as President of the United States, and Commander-in-chief of the army and navy. Do your duty ; give to the slaves their liberty by proclamation, as far as that can give it ; and if...