BY THE GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA.
A PROCLAMATION.
The President of the United States, at the City of Washington, having adopted the policy of prohibiting the transportation of flour, grain, beef, port, bacon and provisions, thereby stopping the avenues of trade and evincing a spirit, not only to wage war against the Southern States without authority of law, and against the Constitution, which he is sworn to support, but to prevent them, as far as lies in his power, from supplying themselves with the necessaries of life, and the Convention of this State having invested the Executive of Virginia with authority to see “that in all things the Commonwealth take no detriment,” therefore, I, JOHN LETCHER, Governor of Virginia, to counteract such policy, and retain within the limits of this State such articles as are essential to the support of our troops, and to the sustenance of our people, do hereby proclaim and make known that hereafter, until further orders, no flour, grain, beef, pork, bacon or provisions of any description shall be transported beyond the limits of this Commonwealth.
Given under my hand as Governor, and under the seal of the Commonwealth, at Richmond, this 11th of May, 1861, and in the Eighty-fifth year of the Commonwealth.
JOHN LETCHER.
By the Governor:
GEORGE W. MUNFORD,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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Sources
Richmond Dispatch (Richmond, VA) 14 May 1861.
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