IMPORTANT PROCLAMATIONS: The Belligerent Rights of the Rebels at an End; All Nations Warned Against Harboring Their Privateers (5/10/1865)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 5/10/1865

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WASHINGTON, Tuesday, May 9.

President JOHNSON has issued a proclamation, declaring that, whereas armed resistance to the authority of the government in certain States heretofore declared to be in insurrection, may be regarded as virtually at an end, and the persons by whom that resistance as well as the operations of the insurgent cruisers were directed, are fugitives of captives; and, whereas, it is understood that certain cruisers are are still infesting the high seas, and others are preparing to capture, burn and destroy vessels of the United States, he enjoins all naval, military and civil officers of the United States diligently to endeavor by all lawful means to arrest the said cruisers and to bring them into a port of the United States, in order that they may be prevented from committing further depredations on commerce, and that the persons on board of them may no longer enjoy immunity for their crimes; and he further proclaims and declares that if, after a reasonable time shall have elapsed for this proclamation to become known in the ports of nations claiming to have been neutral, the said insurgent cruisers and the persons on board of them shall continue to receive hospitality in the said ports, this government will deem itself justified in refusing hospitality to the public vessels of such nations in ports of the United States, and in adopting such other measures as may be deemed advisable toward vindicating the national sovereignty.

The President has also issued an executive order to reestablish the authority of the United States and execute the laws within the geographical limits known as the State of Virginia. It is ordered that all acts and proceedings of the political, military and civil organizations which have been in a state of insurrection and rebellion within the State

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: civilwar

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Important Proclamations: The Belligerent Rights of the Rebels at an End – 2
The Homeward March: The Advance of the Army of the Potomac at Louisa Court-House – 2
From North Carolina: The Feeling Among the Rebel Soldiers – 2
The Flight of Jeff. Davis: His Capture Probable – 2
Trade with the South: The Three Per Cent. Tax on Shipments Abolished – 2
Department of the Gulf: Occupation of Montgomery and Selma – 2
Arrest of Robert E. Coxe, of Canada, in whose House Sanders and Tucker were Entertained – 2
Surrender of Rebels – 2
From Cairo – 2
Surrender of Dick Taylor, &c. – 3
Traitors to be Hung – 3
The Trial of the Assassins – 3
Treason at Home: The Trial of Hon Benjamin G. Harris – 3
News from Washington – 3-4
Editorial: The Progress and Prospects of the New Atlantic Telegraph – 4
Editorial: Rebel Sensitiveness – 4-5
Interpretation of the Terms of Lee’s Surrender – 5
Amusements this Evening – 5

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Judge Boasberg just transported himself back in time and ordered that all privateer vessels receive full due process before being fired upon or occupants of said vessels are detained.