10-17-1871: Proclamation by the President, "to enforce the provision of the fourteenth amendment . . . whenever combinations and conspiracies exist in such State or part of a State for the purpose of depriving any portion or class of the people of such State of the rights, privileges, immunities and protection named in the Constitution of the United States…”

Proclamation by the President, “to enforce the provision of the fourteenth amendment . . . whenever combinations and conspiracies exist in such State or part of a State for the purpose of depriving any portion or class of the people of such State of the rights, privileges, immunities and protection named in the Constitution of the United States…”, Oct. 17, 1871