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    Lincoln Proclamation Calling Militia

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    Lincoln issued a proclamation calling for 75,000 militia members to suppress combinations in 7 Confederate states that were obstructing federal law. He appealed to all loyal citizens to support this effort to maintain the Union. Lincoln also commanded those participating in the combinations to disperse within 20 days. Seeing this as an extraordinary occasion, Lincoln convened a special session of Congress on July 4th to determine measures needed for public safety and the national interest.

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    Lincoln issued a proclamation calling for 75,000 militia members to suppress combinations in 7 Confederate states that were obstructing federal law. He appealed to all loyal citizens to support this effort to maintain the Union. Lincoln also commanded those participating in the combinations to disperse within 20 days. Seeing this as an extraordinary occasion, Lincoln convened a special session of Congress on July 4th to determine measures needed for public safety and the national interest.

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    Lincoln issued a proclamation calling for 75,000 militia members to suppress combinations in 7 Confederate states that were obstructing federal law. He appealed to all loyal citizens to support this effort to maintain the Union. Lincoln also commanded those participating in the combinations to disperse within 20 days. Seeing this as an extraordinary occasion, Lincoln convened a special session of Congress on July 4th to determine measures needed for public safety and the national interest.

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    Lincoln Proclamation Calling Militia

    Proclamation Calling Militia


    and

    Convening Congress
    April 15, 1861
    BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
    A PROCLAMATION.
    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 be
    suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the
    Marshals by law,
    Now therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, in virtue of the power
    in me vested by the Constitution, and the laws, have thought fit to call forth, and hereby
    do call forth, the militia of the several States of the Union, to the aggregate number of
    seventy-five thousand, in order to suppress said combinations, and to cause the laws to be
    duly executed. The details, for this object, will be immediately communicated to the State
    authorities through the War Department.
    I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate and aid this effort to maintain the honor,
    the integrity, and the existence of our National Union, and the perpetuity of popular
    government; and to redress wrongs already long enough endured.
    I deem it proper to say that the first service assigned to the forces hereby called forth will
    probably be to re-possess the forts, places, and property which have been seized from the
    Union; and in every event, the utmost care will be observed, consistently with the objects
    aforesaid, to avoid any devastation, any destruction of, or interference with, property, or
    any disturbance of peaceful citizens in any part of the country.
    And I hereby command the persons composing the combinations aforesaid to disperse,
    and retire peaceably to their respective abodes within twenty days from this date.
    Deeming that the present condition of public affairs presents an extraordinary occasion, I
    do hereby, in virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution, convene both Houses
    of Congress. Senators and Representatives are therefore summoned to assemble at their
    respective chambers, at 12 o'clock, noon, on Thursday, the fourth day of July, next, then
    and there to consider and determine, such measures, as, in their wisdom, the public
    safety, and interest may seem to demand.

    In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the United
    States to be affixed.
    Done at the city of Washington this fifteenth day of April in the year of our Lord One
    thousand, Eight hundred and Sixtyone, and of the Independence the United States the
    Eightyfifth.
    ABRAHAM LINCOLN
    By the President:
    WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.

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