By the President of the United States: A Proclamation [caption title, followed by 12 paragraphs of text].
Washington, DC: October 12, 1865. Broadside proclamation with a blank integral leaf, 13 x 8 1/4 inches, signed in type by Andrew Johnson, countersigned in type by Acting Secretary of State W. Hunter. At the head of the tile is a short printed note in brackets, "October 12, 1865 -- Ending Martial Law in Kentucky]." This reconstruction era proclamation, ending martial law in Kentucky, in part: "when the civil war was flagrant, and when combinations were in progress in Kentucky for the purpose of inciting insurgent raids into that State. [the President of the United States] directed ... [the suspension] of the writ of habeas corpus and that martial law should be established there ... [until] the danger from insurgent raids into Kentucky has suspension passed away ... I ... declare that the said proclamation ... is hereby modified, in so far that martial law shall no longer be in force in Kentucky." American Presidency Project Proclamation 146. OCLC records but one copy of this printing (Filson Society) and three copies (Filson Society, Kentucky, National Library of Medicine) of a much smaller version, issued as a general order. Some browning, but very good. (9841). Item #63116
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