The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 3, Volume 5. Page: 38
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CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.
to every State in the Union a republican form of government, and
shall protect each of them against invasion and domestic violence;
and whereas, the President of the United States is, by the Constitution,
made Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, as well as chief civil
Executive officer of the United States, and is bound by solemn oath
faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States, and
to take care that the laws be faithfully executed; and whereas, the
rebellion which has been waged by a portion of the people of the
United States against the properly constituted authorities of the Gov-
ernment thereof, in the most violent and revolting form, but whose
organized and armed forces have now been almost entirely overcome,
has, in its revolutionary progress, deprived the people of the State of
North Carolina of all civil government; and whereas, it becomes
necessary and proper to carry out and enforce the obligations of the
United States to the people of North Carolina, in securing them in
the enjoyment of a 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 pur-
pose of enabling the loyal people of said State to organize a State
Government, whereby justice may be established, domestic tranquillity
insured, and loyal citizens protected in all their rights of life, liberty,
and property, 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, whose duty it shall be at the earliest practical
period to prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary and
proper for convening a convention, composed of delegates to be chosen
by that portion of the people of said State who are loyal to the United
States, and no others, for the purpose of altering or amending the
constitution thereof; and with authority to exercise, within the limits
of said State, all the powers necessary and proper to enable such loyal
people of the State of North Carolina to restore said State to its con-
stitutional relations to the Federal Government, and to present such
a republican form of State government as will entitle the State to the
guaranty of the United States therefor, and its people to protection
by the United States against invasion, insurrection, and domestic
violence: Provided, That in any election that may be hereafter held
for choosing delegates to any State convention as aforesaid no person
shall be qualified as an elector or shall be eligible as a member of such
convention unless he shall have previously taken and subscribed the
oath of amnesty, as set forth in the President's proclamation of May
twenty-ninth, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-five, and is a voter qualified as prescribed by the constitution and
laws of the State of North Carolina in force immediately before the
twentieth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-one, the date of the so-called ordinance of secession;
and the said convention when convened, or the legislature that may
be thereafter assembled, will prescribe the qualification of electors,
and the eligibility of persons to hold office under the constitution and
laws of the State, a power the people of the several States composing
the Federal Union have rightfully exercised from the origin of the
Government to the present time.
And I do hereby direct-
First. That the military commander of the department, and all
officers and persons in the military and naval service, aid and assist38
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United States. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 3, Volume 5., book, 1900; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth139267/m1/47/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.