Johnson, Andrew:

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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS, BY THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, THE EXECUTIVE POWER IS VESTED IN A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WHO IS BOUND BY ... Uncommon broadside printing of a Reconstruction-era proclamation issued by President Andrew Johnson. This proclamation was prompted by General Daniel Sickles' "General Order No. 10," which Sickles hoped would control the carpetbagging then rampant in the Carolinas, but which instead resulted in the obstruction of the states' civil courts. Following the Reconstruction Act of 1867, the South was placed under military rule and divided into five districts. North Carolina and South Carolina became the "Second Military District," under the command of Sickles. Although military control over the civil courts in the South had been for the most part withdrawn by President Johnson in April of 1866, General Sickles nonetheless countermanded the President's orders regarding the civil courts by issuing General Order No. 10 on April 11, 1867, which stated that "judgments or decrees for the payment of money, or causes of action arising between the 19th of December, 1860, and the 15th of May, 1865, shall not be enforced by execution against the property or person of the defendant. Proceedings in such causes of action now pending shall be stayed; and no suit or process shall be hereafter instituted or commenced for any such causes of action." As biographer Edgcumb Pinchon notes, Sickles issued

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