Report of the Governor of Washington Territory, Made to the Secretary of the Interior, for the Year 1878[-June 30, 1889]U.S. Government Printing Office, 1886 - Washington (State) |
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Page 37 - Territory, and that by reason of unlawful obstructions and combinations and the assemblage of evil-disposed persons it has become impracticable' to enforce by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings the laws of the United States at Seattle, and at other points and places within said Territory...
Page 36 - Rosa, which may be inconsistent with the laws and Constitution of the United States, authorizing him at the same time, if he shall find it necessary, to suspend there the writ of habeas corpus, and to remove from the vicinity of the United States fortresses all dangerous or suspected persons.
Page 37 - President of the United States, do hereby admonish all good citizens of the United States and all persons within the territory and jurisdiction of the United States against aiding, countenancing, abetting, or taking part in such unlawful proceedings; and I do hereby warn all persons...
Page 29 - ... day of November instant. And I do admonish all good citizens of the United States and all persons within the limits and jurisdiction thereof against aiding, abetting, countenancing or taking any part in such unlawful acts or assemblages. In witness whereof, I have set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed. Done at the city of Washington this...
Page 30 - November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and tenth. [SEAL.] GROVER CLEVELAND. By the President : TF BAYARD, Secretary of State.
Page 37 - Whereas, in the judgment of the President, an emergency has arisen and a case is now presented which justifies and requires, under the Constitution and laws of the United States, the employment of military force to suppress domestic violence and enforce the faithful execution of the laws of the United States if the command and warning of this proclamation be disobeyed and disregarded: Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States of America, do hereby command and warn all insurgents...
Page 36 - February, in consequence of an inflamed condition of the public mind in the city of Seattle and grave disturbance of the public peace therein, I, Watson C. Squire, governor of the Territory of Washington, issued my proclamation warning all persons to desist from breaches of the peace and...
Page 36 - Whereas an insurrection exists in the State of Florida, by which the lives, liberty, and property of loyal citizens of the United States are endangered : And whereas it is deemed proper that all needful measures should be taken for the protection of such citizens and all officers of the United States in the discharge of their public duties...
Page 29 - THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas it is represented to me by the governor of the Territory of Washington that domestic violence exists within the said Territory, and that by reason of unlawful obstructions and combinations and the assemblage of evil-disposed persons it has become impracticable...
Page 25 - Territory for an intelligent, law-abiding, and prosperous community, who love their country and their homes, who are blessed with boundless resources of forest, field, and mine, and who aspire to soon become a great self-governing State, to assert their power of self-control and self-preservation as against a spirit of lawlessness which is destructive alike to immigration, to labor, and to capital. If you do not protect yourselves you have only to look to the step beyond, which is simply the fate...