Proclamation Convoking the Assembly to Take Action in Connection
with the Appearance of the Rebellion.
Pennsylvania, ss.
(Signed) A. G. Curtin.
IN THE NAME AND BY the Authority of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania. ANDREW G. CURTIN, Governor of the said Commonwealth.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas an armed rebellion exists in a portion of the states
of this Union, threatening the destruction of the National Government, periling
public and private property, endangering the peace and security of this
Commonwealth and inviting systematic piracy upon our commerce, and,
Whereas, adequate provision does not exist by law to enable
the Executive to make the Military powers of the State as available and
efficient as it should be for the common defence of the State and the General
Government, and
Whereas, an occasion so extraordinary requires a prompt
exercise of the Legislative power of the State, Therefore,
I, Andrew G. Curtin, Governor of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution do hereby
convene the General Assembly of this Commonwealth and require the Members of
the Senate and House of Representatives to meet in their respective Houses in
the Capitol at Harrisburg on Tuesday the thirtieth day of April, A. D. one
thousand eight hundred and sixty one, at Twelve of clock noon of that day then
and there to take into consideration and adopt such measures in the premises as
the present exigency may seem to them in their wisdom to demand.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and caused
the Great Seal of the Commonwealth to he affixed at Harrisburg this twentieth
day of April in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one
and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-sixth.
By the Governor,
Eli Slifer,
Secretary of the
Commonwealth.
SOURCE: George Edward Reed, Editor, Pennsylvania Archives, Fourth Series, Papers of the Governors,
Volume 8, p. 370-1
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