Whenever, by reason of unlawful obstructions, combinations, or
assemblages of persons or rebellion against the authority of the
Government of the United States, it shall become impracticable, in
the judgment of the President, to enforce by the ordinary course of
judicial proceedings the laws of the United States within any State
or Territory, it shall be lawful for the President to call forth the
militia of any or all the States and to employ such parts of the land
and naval forces of the United States as he may deem necessary to
enforce the faithful execution of the laws of the United States or to
suppress such rebellion, in whatever State or Territory thereof the
laws of the United States may be forcibly opposed or the execution
thereof forcibly obstructed.
And whereas it has been made to appear satisfactorily to me, by
information received from the governor of the Territory of Arizona and
from the General of the Army of the United States and other reliable
sources, that in consequence of unlawful combinations of evil-disposed
persons who are banded together to oppose and obstruct the execution of
the laws it has become impracticable to enforce by the ordinary course
of judicial proceedings the laws of the United States within that
Territory, and that the laws of the United States have been therein
forcibly opposed and the execution thereof forcibly resisted; and
Whereas the laws of the United States require that whenever it may be
necessary, in the judgment of the President, to use the military forces
for the purpose of enforcing the faithful execution of the laws of the
United States, he shall forthwith, by proclamation, command such
insurgents to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes
within a limited time:
Now, therefore, I, Chester A. Arthur, President of the United States, do
hereby admonish all good citizens of the United States, and especially
of the Territory of Arizona, against aiding, countenancing, abetting, or
taking part in any such unlawful proceedings; and I do hereby warn all
persons engaged in or connected with said obstruction of the laws to
disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes on or before
noon of the 15th day of May.
[SEAL.]
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this 3d day of May, A.D. 1882, and
of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and sixth.